Having cast the vote the administration has an obligation to make sure that every vote counts.
This means accurate and effective collation of the results along with safe transportation of the ballot boxes to the counting stations. Every ballot paper deserves to find its way into the count fully reflecting the wishes of the voter.
This also requires open declaration of spoiled and destroyed papers so that they can be accounted for in the counting phase.
“In addition we secured the services of the foremost Israeli finger print expert who supervised a team of 10 other experts, who essentially cross checked some of the work being done in the UK and did some work of their own. Working together daily for almost 3 months, the experts compared almost a million ballot papers to discover multiple thumb printing. In each of the states surveyed, they discovered, shocking evidence of extensive multiple thumb printing – one or two people, maximum 5, thumb printing hundreds and thousands in some locations! In some locations in Osun state, especially Ife, constituencies the experts found that over 80% of votes cast for PDP in the gubernatorial and senatorial HOA were multiple thumb prints. In Ekiti, for the contested local governments, there were 30,000 multiple thumb prints of 130,000 PDP’s votes.”
“Given the crucial role of the police in protecting the ballot boxes on their way from the polling booth to the collating centre, this is where they can most easily collude in the manipulation…”