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EXPLAINER: What Gambians should know about IEC’s November 2026 voter card replacement exercise
The Gambia
“They told me they were from our bank and they needed to do an upgrade on I and my husbands account but i have to furnish them with details of our ATM Card, so as soon as i gave out my card details they requested for my husband’s own, just as i was about to reel it out for them my husband returned and was baffled that i was holding his ATM card and was talking to someone on the phone,”
In 2018, Kaduna State became the first state in Nigeria to conduct an election using an electronic voting system. It also made Nigeria the second in Africa to achieve the feat. Come September 4th 2021, Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, has geared up to deploy the same technology with an updated software to conduct the local government elections. Here are nine things you need to know about electronic voting and how it works.