{"id":6851,"date":"2015-03-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/will-voter-card-system-prevent-election-fraud-nigerians-are-wary\/?lang=fr"},"modified":"2018-05-25T06:56:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T06:56:44","slug":"will-voter-card-system-prevent-election-fraud-nigerians-are-wary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/will-voter-card-system-prevent-election-fraud-nigerians-are-wary\/","title":{"rendered":"Will voter card system prevent election fraud? Nigerians are wary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Nigerians prepare for Saturday\u2019s presidential election, the integrity of the vote will hang in large part on the success of a new voter card system that includes thousands of hand-held electronic card readers.<\/p>\n<p>The system is designed to prevent identity theft, ballot stuffing and fraud, which marred previous elections and helped spark post-election rioting and violence in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>But with incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan locked in a tight race with his challenger, former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari, observers say the danger of fraud may be even greater this time.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/content\/nigeria-voter-fraud\/2693843.html\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Nigerians prepare for Saturday\u2019s presidential election, the integrity of the vote will hang in large part on the success of a new voter card system that includes thousands of hand-held electronic card readers. The system is designed to prevent identity theft, ballot stuffing and fraud, which marred previous elections and helped spark post-election rioting [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","region-afrique-de-l-ouest","region-nigeria-fr","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-396","item-theme-documents-d-identite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18567,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6851\/revisions\/18567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}