INEC Bars Video Recording In Polling Booths During Osun Election

According to a report by Punch Metro, the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, has said voters will not be allowed to go inside polling booths with their telephones, cameras and any other devices that can record images.

 

He said this on Monday in Osogbo at the stakeholders’ forum organised ahead of Saturday election.

 

The INEC chairman said this would help to curb the issue of vote-buying and vote-selling which he described as a new strategy adopted by politicians to rig elections.

 

He said voters would not be barred from using their devices at the polling units but would not be allowed to hold their cameras and telephones from the moment they are issued with ballot papers until they cast their marked ballots inside the ballot boxes.

 

Details later