Section 13
Transfer of registered voters(1) A person who before the election is resident in a constituency other than the one in which he or she was registered may apply to the Resident Electoral Commissioner of the State where he or she is currently resident for his or her name to be entered on the Transferred Voters List for the constituency.
(2) An application under subsection (1) shall be accompanied by a copy of the applicant’s voters’ card and shall be made not later than 90 days before the date of an election in the constituency where the applicant is resident.
(3) The Resident Electoral Commissioner to whom an application is made under this section shall cause the applicant’s name to be entered in the Transferred Voters’ List if he or she is satisfied that the applicant is resident in a polling area in the constituency and is registered in another constituency.
(4) Whenever an electoral officer on the direction of the Resident Electoral Commissioner enters the name of any person on the Transferred Voters’ List for his or her constituency, he or she shall—
(a) assign that person to a polling station or a polling area in his or her constituency and indicate in the list the polling area or polling station to which that person is assigned;
(b) issue the person with a new voters’ card and retrieve his or her previous voter’s card; and
(c) send a copy of the entry to the electoral officer of the constituency where the person whose name has been so entered was originally registered and upon receipt of this entry, that electoral officer shall delete the name from the voters’ list.
Where a person has relocated to another constituency, they can apply to transfer their polling unit. This must be done not less than 90 days to the election date. According to INEC’s website, the Transfer takes about fourteen working (14) days. The Electoral Officer will contact the applicant when the process is completed for collection of his/her voter’s card.
A person who has relocated cannot vote in his/her new location unless he/she transfers his/her registration.
The previous timeline in the 2010 Act for transfers was not less than 60 days to the election
A person who before the election is resident in a constituency other than the one in which he was registered can apply to the Resident Electoral Commissioner of the State where he is currently resident for his name to be entered on the transferred voters list for the constituency