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Claim 1: Social media influencer Martin Kollie has alleged agents <\/a>were sent to scan voters’ cards in a NEC database and pay the voters US$30.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Verdict:<\/strong> Misleading<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Findings <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In verifying the claim, The Stage Media (TSM) first discovered that there was indeed an ongoing scanning of voter cards. However, it was part of the voting process even though the election was non-biometric. In an interview on Spoon <\/a>TV, NEC communication director Henry Flomo explained that the scanning process does not disenfranchise or threaten the voter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The voter\u2019s card scanning does not cancel a person\u2019s information from the system or transfer their vote to another person. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are not having digital elections,\u201d he noted. An IT specialist, Dorbor Brown, told TSM that the scanning of the voting card only provides information already stored on the card, which will help the voting system. However, TSM could not authenticate the amount of US$30 allegedly given as scanning fees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Claim 1: Social media influencer Martin Kollie has alleged agents were sent to scan voters’ cards in a NEC database and pay the voters US$30.   Verdict: Misleading Findings  In verifying the claim, The Stage Media (TSM) first discovered that there was indeed an ongoing scanning of voter cards. However, it was part of the voting process even though the election was non-biometric. In an interview on Spoon TV, NEC communication director Henry Flomo explained that the scanning process does not disenfranchise or threaten the voter.  The voter\u2019s card scanning does not cancel a person\u2019s information from the system or transfer their vote to another person.  \u201cWe are not having digital elections,\u201d he noted. An IT specialist, Dorbor Brown, told TSM that the scanning of the voting card only provides information already stored on the card, which will help the voting system. However, TSM could not authenticate the amount of US$30 allegedly given as scanning fees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"hannibal_claim_source":"","hannibal_source_label":"","hannibal_card_color":"blue","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_bluesky_share_type":"","_mastodon_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[5,1571,3812,3815,1960,3797],"tags":[],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[3847],"class_list":["post-16304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","category-fact-check","category-headline","category-homepage","category-liberia","category-live-updates"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-4eY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":3847,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"the-stage-media","display_name":"The Stage Media","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Liberia-ballot.webp?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16308,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16304\/revisions\/16308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16304"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=16304"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=16304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}