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Electoral offences and their sanctions
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Electoral Offences because there is an in-built mechanism in the computers used for the biometric registration which makes it possible to detect and bring out perpetrators of multiple registrations as earlier alluded to. This is one of the many advantages of the introduction of the biometric registration system because in the past, it was not easy, as a matter of fact, to fish out multiple registrants who by their acts, ended up bloating the voters' register. Even though it is sometimes argued that some people indulge in multiple registrations out of ignorance, it is also true to state that majority of those who indulge in this wrongful act, do so on purpose. 2. Impersonation Impersonation is where an applicant registers or attempts to register in the name of another person, whether that person is alive, dead or fictitious. In the years gone by, this kind of electoral misdemeanour had been a serious problem to the Commission. As a result, it committed a lot of resources 16