Country Director of ActionAid, Andrew Mamedu, says the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has a collation system that can function with or without network.
Mamedu said this on Thursday while responding to questions in an interview on Arise Television’s ‘Prime Time’
He was speaking on the ongoing debate on the Electoral Act amendment by the Senate.
DAILY POST reports that the Senate on Tuesday
amended Section 60 of the Electoral Act
to allow presiding officers at polling units to electronically transmit election results to the Results Viewing Portal, IREV, of the INEC.
Reacting, Mamedu said, “So let’s go back a bit. Before the last election, 2023 election we had an amendment in 2022 and in that amendment accreditation was made compulsory.
“So before now you could use incidence form. So in the 2022 amendments, it was made compulsory that you must be accredited up to the extent that if the BVAS is not working elections will be suspended until a functional one is provided.
“And these same BVAS have the capability of accrediting all registered voters within that polling unit. It is the same machine that is used to snap the results and transmit the results to iReV.
“So, at the point of snapping and putting up these results, whether there is a network or not, it remains untampered and retained in the memory until it reaches a point of network, like WhatsApp.” See more