Elect Independent Umpires from the Ground Up

Green White Go proposes election administration that begins at the Polling Unit, where each established Polling Unit directly elects a Representative, Deputy Representative and Assistant Representative for one year; Polling-Unit Representatives then select the Ward Electoral Officer from a qualified external pool, Ward Electoral Officers select the LGA Electoral Officer, LGA Electoral Officers within each Geo-economic Zone select the Zonal Electoral Officer, and Zonal Electoral Officers select the Federal Electoral Officer, with no sitting member using an institutional vote to promote themselves upward.

Beneath this annually renewed civic chain sits a permanent professional Electoral Secretariat that keeps administration continuous and non-partisan, maintains the Civic Grid under public rules and remains independent of the Zonal Chief Executive, while detailed staffing, technology, training, discipline and boundary-administration procedures belong in legislation and the Electoral Service Policy Paper.

The purpose is to place democratic oversight of election administration close to citizens while keeping the professional work continuous, challengeable and governed by rules, with the Federal Electoral Officer certifying the lawful result rather than inventing it.