Nigeria, Feb. 16 -- It is neither odd nor surprising that the Senate's earlier rejection (as part of its passage of the Electoral Act Amendment Bill) of mandatory electronic transmission of polling results by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has continued to generate impassioned debate. On the plus account, the consequences (nearly all positive) of free and fair voting processes in this country are repeatedly underscored by the skulduggery that our politicians are inclined to indulge in. For this reason, important segments of civil society are biased in favour of anything that could reduce, if not eliminate completely, the exercise of arbitrary impulses in our electoral system - especially "incidents of result manipula...