Booby Traps in Card Reader for Polls?

As Nigerians prepare to elect their president and National Assembly members for the next four years, fears have continued to mount over the card reader system that will be used to for the exercise, as well as the preparedness of the stakeholders.
Could it be true that some polling booths have just one registered voter, while several others have below 10 eligible voters?
Several instances of such figures in Lagos State, triggering fears that there could be many more across the country.
Traditionally, one polling booth has a maximum of 500 registered voters, but it was learnt that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) raised the top limit to 750 for the purpose of this election and that is the number that has been configured into a card reader.
But some polling points have more than 750 voters, necessitating the provision of more than one polling point in such wards.
For instance, according to informed sources, Agege Ward 4, Booth No. 049 in Lagos State has three voting points because the number of registered voters is 1167. It was learnt on Thursday that the same is the case with Agege Ward 5, Booth No. 027 which sources say has 1018 registered voters and three voting points.
Alimosho Ward 1, Booth No. 051A has two voting points although the number of registered voters is 1061, while Alimosho Ward 2, Booth No. 032 has 1430 registered voters. Alimosho Ward 03 Booth No. 049 has four voting points with 1627 registered voters. The configuration generates alarm with the discovery that Alimosho Ward 04, Booth 037A has eight registered voters, whereas Booth 037 has 1789 registered voters.
In the same Ward 04, booth 083A has 10 registered voters, booth 099A, five; Booth 100A, 16; Booth 1088, one, just as Booth 009C.
When the figure is higher and the remainder is up to between the 500 and 750 mark, it forms another polling unit. A much lower figure that spills into another polling unit is called the satellite unit.
Lagos State has 8,462 polling booths, but because some polling points have between 1,500 and 2,000 registered voters, there are 12,114 polling units. As a consequence, there are 12,114 card readers. “Security operatives are on the alert to checkmate possible electoral fraud in satellite units where instead of between 500 and 750, there may be just 200 voters. The challenge now is to check fraud using satellite units,” a security source told Daily Times.
The Lagos State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr Akin Orebiyi, admitted on Wednesday that the commission was yet to receive 200,000 Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs). When contacted for clarifications, Kayode Idowu, the spokesman of the INEC chairman Professor Attahiru Jega, referred Daily Times to the Lagos office. The state Public Relations Officer of commission, Mr. Femi Akinbiyi, referred the newspaper to the REC on the inquiry. When spoken to on telephone, Orebiyi requested for details of the inquiries through a short message service (sms).
He had not responded to the sms at press time. A resident of the Alimosho area of Lagos State, Koko Gbadamosi, told Daily Times that the commission was yet to make adequate preparation for his area as at Thursday afternoon. Gbadamosi, who said that he belonged to Ward C1, said that many residents were yet to get their PVCs, adding that the required booths were yet to be created. He said: “In my ward, the polling booths that are yet to be created include 061, 062, 067, 081 and 087.”
He listed those that were yet to be created at press time in Akowonjo Road to include 021 and 027. Gbadamosi also urged security agencies to pay special attention to what he called flashpoints in his area. These, he said, include Araromi booths 045, 047, 078 and 080.