'Lai Olurode and MK Hammanga as the number of polling units, their remoteness or otherwise and the size of the voting population are considered as critical and factored in but field experiences seem to negate these considerations. (iv) Apart from the absence of a template for posting of security forces in election matters, there is poor logistics and those responsible for deployment are too overwhelmed and sadly display a reluctance to delegate. Electoral officers could also be blamed in this regard. It is suspected that since money is appropriated to take care of some forms of logistics, those responsible for deployment may be cutting corners by exaggerating the number of security personnel that is needed or by not deploying all that is required in order to cut corners. (v) Election security personnel as well, tend not to be deployed as planned. (vi) Security vulnerability is a factor that guides deployment. This assertion was difficult to verify during field visits. What is evident is that flash points are better secured, especially in staggered elections, than during general elections. (vii) There is the fear in some quarters that deployment of heavily armed security personnel scares voters and affects voters' turnout negatively, whereas some are of the view that it contributes to higher voters' turnout 78 ELECTION SECURITY IN NIGERIA: MATTERS ARISING Deployment of Security Personnel in Elections: Challenges and Lessons from the Field in that once security personnel are sufficiently and effectively deployed, potential voters are assured of the security of their lives and of the electoral processes generally 11 . In testing this proposition, we wish to present data on deployment of security personnel and voters' turnout as they relate to recent gubernatorial by or re-run elections that were ordered by the courts in 2012. From the data presented in Table 1, there is nothing to suggest that voters' are scared or refused to come out to exercise their franchise because of large deployment of security forces during elections. Kogi and Adamawa States with almost equal numbers of security forces recorded comparable voters' turnout. Bayelsa and Kebbi figures for voters' turnout were somehow outlandish and difficult to justify. ELECTION SECURITY IN NIGERIA: MATTERS ARISING 79