TITLE: ICT‚ Youth and Electoral Process NAME: ODEKANMI Benedicta OCTOBER 2010 “Great Nigerian Students … Great”. This is no doubt the way Nigerian Students in Universities‚ Polytechnics and Colleges of Education greet themselves in social gatherings and the likes. And they make a great number of the youths but who is a Youth? A Youth could be described as someone between childhood and maturity stage in his development. This implies a youth is someone
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Elections in Nigeria are nothing but dramatised rituals that seek to legitimate the power structure of the ruling class By NGOVE‚ PETER PEVER Being an M. Sc seminar presentation in the department of Political Science‚ Benue State University‚ Makurdi. ABSTRACT The concept of election has been defined in this work as the process by which the people choose their leaders. Nigeria’s democratic experience has been faced with the question of credibility of our electoral process and elections
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The electoral or voting system in any country or within a state is a very integral part of the country’s progress. It does not only extend to the economic or political independence‚ but it also signifies the society’s struggle in achieving self-sufficiency and freedom. There are different types of election processes such as the plurality election‚ majority election‚ place election and the at-large election. These types differ in the procedures and as such‚ have distinct features that render the strength
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because to be president without winning the popular vote‚ we first have to understand the process which this country uses: The Electoral College. Each state has a different amount of electoral votes based on the members the state has in the House of Representatives and in the Senate. However‚ because the population of a state may change‚ so does the amount of administrators in the House of Representatives‚ this process being called reapportionment. On the other hand‚ because each state is fixed to have
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CHAPTER THREE IMPERATIVES FOR ELECTORAL REFORM 3.1 INTRODUCTION In the context of a weak electoral body‚ a perverted electoral process and undemocratic political parties‚ the stage is set for flawed elections. Thus‚ the 1999 and 2003 elections‚ like virtually all the preceding elections in Nigeria’s post-colonial history‚ were classic cases of electoral fraud. In broad terms‚ there have been two kinds of elections in Nigeria’s post-colonial history. These are the ‘transition’ and
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Research proposal A Proposal Submitted to Swami Ramanand Teerth University‚ Nanded For the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy In Role of IT in Rural Marketing Under the Faculty of Commerce & Management By Miss. Trupti Kucheriya (BCA‚ MBA(Computer Management)) Under the guidance of Dr. P.N. Sagar M.Com‚ MA(Eco)‚Ph.D Vice – Principal and Research Guide‚ Dept. of Commerce Rajarshi Shahu College‚ Latur- Maharashtra Oct. 2013 1. Introduction: The topic can be broken into 3 major
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The role of ICT in higher education for the 21st century: ICT as a change agent for education Ron Oliver Edith Cowan University‚ Perth‚ Western Australia r.oliver@ecu.edu.au Abstract: Information and communication technologies (ICT) have become commonplace entities in all aspects of life. Across the past twenty years the use of ICT has fundamentally changed the practices and procedures of nearly all forms of endeavour within business and governance. Within education‚ ICT has begun to have a presence
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ELECTORAL SECURITY IN THE PHILIPPINES (Automated Election System Assessment) A paper to be presented to Professor Fe Atanacio-Blas Department of International Studies Institute of Arts and Sciences Far Eastern University
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According to the National Archive‚ The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors‚ the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President‚ and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress. The Electoral College was established within the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens The Electoral College although develop by the founding fathers
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INTRODUCTION Since the electoral meltdown in the 1983 General elections‚ each Election Day has raised new alarms that the foundation of our democracy — the right to vote in free and fair elections — remains beset with varied problems. Years after serious problems were exposed to the public‚ it has become increasingly apparent that our elections system is technologically‚ legally‚ and administratively inadequate and unfair. Over the last three years‚ INEC‚ Nigerian politicians‚ civil society organizations
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