Section 1: Registration of voters, etc.

(1) The Independent National Electoral Commission (in this Act referred to as "the Commission") shall carry out the registration of persons qualified to vote and maintain and revise the register of voters compiled under this Act.
(2) A person shall be eligible to be registered as a voter in the area where he resides if-
(a) he is a citizen of Nigeria;
(b) he is resident in Nigeria;
(c) he has attained the minimum age of eighteen years.
(3) The Commission shall compile a new register of voters from a preliminary list of voters obtained from the registration of all persons qualified to vote, and in any other manner as the Commission may think fit.
(4) A registration officer or an assistant registration officer and any person authorised by him shall, for any purpose connected with the registration of voters, be present at the registration centre between the hours of 8 o'clock in the morning and 6 o'clock in the evening and may make such enquiries as may be deemed necessary for the performance of his duties.
(5) Any of the persons referred to in subsection (4) of this section engaged in the registration of voters shall carry an identity card provided by the Commission as evidence of his authority to register voters residing in the registration unit.
(6) A person engaged in the registration of voters shall in respect of his unit-
(a) exercise the utmost care in preparing the list of voters to be known as the preliminary list; and
(b) take all necessary precautions to ensure that the preliminary list, when completed, contains the principal names by which every registered voter is usually or may be known and his address, and that the list does not contain the name of any person who is not qualified to vote.
(7) Every preliminary list compiled under this Act shall be displayed in the constituency to which it relates in such a manner and in such places as the Commission may direct and no register of voters shall be printed or used for the purpose of any election until all claims and objections have been dealt with in the prescribed manner.
(8) When the claims and objections to a preliminary list have been dealt with as required by section 8 of this Act, it shall be printed in such number of volumes, which shall be bound and paged with the pages numbered consecutively, as directed by the Commission and be published as the register of voters.
(9) The register of voters shall contain in respect of every person, the particulars required in Form EC.1A in the Schedule to this Act, including the principal name and such one or more other names by which a person is usually or may be known and his address which, for the purposes of this subsection, may be the name of a village or, in the case of a town, the name of the street, if the Commission thinks fit, but no person shall be registered under a principal name alone being a single name or without his address. [Schedule.]
(10) A person whose name appears in the register of voters shall be entitled to vote at any election conducted by the Commission.