"Electoral materials" refers to any documents or items that are related to elections. These can include ballots, voter registration forms, posters, flyers, or any other materials that are used during the voting process.
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One of the important areas of preparation is keeping all our stores in good shape
for electoral materials that may soon be coming in.
At a press conference organised by the groups in Warri on Sunday to assess the outcome of the exercise, the accredited civil society stressed that there was no transparent distribution
of electoral materials in the polling units visited by members of the observer groups.
Ayorinde explained that as the election that would bring on board a new set of public officers for the next four years at the local government level, the restriction of movement will allow the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) and the security agencies to distribute
electoral materials in good time and ensure a seamless electoral process.
She added that the commission had started distribution of
non-sensitive electoral materials to electoral officers across the 20 local governments and 37 development areas.
Reacting, the state Publicity Secretary of APC, Mr. Chris Finebone, said the PDP had planned to
plant electoral materials at the resident of the APC chieftains with a view to getting them arrested until after the rerun election.
Gunmen have invaded unit 16, ward 8 in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State, the home country of Chibuike Amaechi and
hijacked electoral material.
Saturday's councils» election in Akwa Ibom was characterized by late arrival
of electoral materials and officials, including security personnel.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Anambra State has commenced the distribution of
sensitive electoral materials to local government areas in the state.
• The NPP has recruited «machomen» who will engage in the destruction and burning of
electoral materials, EC equipment as well as snatching of ballot boxes in the NDC strongholds.
A policy analyst of the party, Kofi Asamoah Siaw told Citi News the Commission must re-look at its process of distribution of
electoral materials to prevent losses and any form of security breaches.
And ensuring qualifications isn't exactly rocket science: one coroner candidate says «I am more qualified because I finished forensics college degree from UPenn» in
electoral materials, another says «I'm more qualified because I like cats».
The late arrival of
electoral materials is frustrating many prospective voters eager to vote in the ongoing Benue local government elections, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
Onjeh was subsequently granted permission by the court to inspect
the electoral materials and amazingly, in the course of the inspection, it was detected that the number of votes announced in favour of Mark was more than accredited voters.
The Western Regional Director of the Electoral Commission Stephen Opoku Mensah, added that «
all electoral materials were available at all the 38 selected polling stations three days ahead of the Wassa Amenfi West constituency.
Curiously, the EC as far back as October 2015 had written to PPA about the procurement of
electoral materials, including the pink sheets, and had presented a list excluding Aerovote, as the companies that were going to be part of the processes.
We also have evidence that
electoral materials were sighted in hotel rooms in the Funtua Giwa and Birnin - Gwari local government areas.
Ikpamezie Innocent «39 Yrs» from Mbaitoli LGA of Imo State who admitted to be the Special Adviser on Electoral matters to Senator Hope Uzodimma representing Orlu Senatorial District of Imo State currently in the Senate confessed that all
the electoral materials were given to them by Dr. Iyke Njoku, Zonal coordinator, Owerri Municipality to Senator Hope Uzodimma representing Orlu Senatorial District of Imo State in the Senate.