{"id":25719,"date":"2025-11-07T18:19:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T17:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=25719"},"modified":"2025-11-08T11:26:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T10:26:32","slug":"use-the-index-finger-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/use-the-index-finger-to-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"#AnambraDecides2025: Should voters use index finger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CLAIM: A Facebook post urging<\/a> votes for the Labour Party claims, \u201cAll you need is your voter\u2019s card, index finger, and ballot paper,\u201d with a graphic saying, \u201cUse the index finger to vote.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINDINGS<\/strong>: The 2023 election voting procedure document does not specify any finger for voting. Also, ahead of the 2019 general election, the Independent National Electoral Commission<\/a> (INEC) addressed claims about which finger should be used for voting. In a tweet on February 12, 2019, INEC clarified<\/a>: \u201cA voter can use any finger to vote but must ensure the mark is clear and placed inside the box of the chosen political party without straying into another box.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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

SOURCE: INEC<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DATE: 7\/11\/2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FACTCHECK AUTHOR: Allwell Okpi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EDITORS: Motunrayo Joel & Opeyemi Kehinde<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CLAIM: A Facebook post urging votes for the Labour Party claims, \u201cAll you need is your voter\u2019s card, index finger, and ballot paper,\u201d with a graphic saying, \u201cUse the index finger to vote.\u201d FINDINGS: The 2023 election voting procedure document does not specify any finger for voting. Also, ahead of the 2019 general election, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) addressed claims about which finger should be used for voting. In a tweet on February 12, 2019, INEC clarified: \u201cA voter can use any finger to vote but must ensure the mark is clear and placed inside the box of the chosen political party without straying into another box.\u201d VERDICT: Misleading SOURCE: INEC DATE: 7\/11\/2025 FACTCHECK AUTHOR: Allwell Okpi EDITORS: Motunrayo Joel & Opeyemi Kehinde<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20749,"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":"default","_twitter_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type":"default","_pinterest_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"default","_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":[1571,5,437,3812,3815,16],"tags":[],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[3744],"class_list":["post-25719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fact-check","category-elections","category-facebook-checks","category-headline","category-homepage","category-politics"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-6GP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":3744,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"nigerian-fact-checkers-coalition","display_name":"Nigerian Fact-checkers' Coalition","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\/2024\/11\/Ballot-Ondo.png?fit=1600%2C900&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25719","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=25719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25757,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25719\/revisions\/25757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25719"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=25719"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=25719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}