Nigeria, Aug. 20 -- For much of Nigeria's electoral history, the most dangerous journey in an election has begun after the voter casts the ballot. Ballots may be counted and result sheets signed openly at the polling unit in the presence of voters and party agents, but the physical movement of results through ward, local government and state collation centres has historically created vulnerabilities to alteration, substitution, mutilation and outright fabrication. Judicial records and successive national electoral reform interventions like the Babalakin Commission of Inquiry into the affairs of the Federal Electoral Commission (1986), the Uwais Electoral Reform Committee (2008) and the Nnamani Committee on Constitution and Electoral Refor...