Electoral Offences This part of the publication delves into specific electoral offences at the registration level and their related sanctions in order to fashion out measures to be adopted to eradicate or at least, reduce the effects of this electoral menace. 1. Multiple Registrations This is the situation where an applicant registers or attempts to register more than once in the same registration exercise at the same centre or at different centres. The introduction of biometric registration in the electoral system is to help eliminate some of the electoral misdemeanours such as multiple registrations. But then, some applicants are so obsessed with the idea of cheating that despite all the repeated warnings and voter education by the Electoral Commission and the NCCE to the electorate, some of them still indulge in a malpractice of this nature even though now, they can never get away with it. Such people ought to know and accept it that even if they succeed in their plans to register more than once, they will be exposed in the final analysis. This is so 15