Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has unveiled a new technology to deter electoral fraud: an electronic reader for voter registration cards. It was presented to the public at INEC headquarters on Oct. 31 in the presence of local election monitoring and advocacy groups that will be key to promoting collaboration between civil society and the government, and ensuring that voters are not surprised by the new voting procedures on election day.

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As Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) prepared to go to the polls on Oct. 12, seven prominent civil society organizations from across the country coalesced under the banner of “Pod Lupom – Koalicija za slobodne i postene izbore” (Under the Magnifying Glass – Coalition for Free and Fair Elections) – to mobilize broad-based citizen oversight of the election process.