The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has revealed how polling unit results will be transmitted during the governorship elections on Saturday.
Festus Okoye, INEC Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, disclosed this while speaking on Arise TV on Friday.
“The law as of today prescribes a dual mode of either transmission of results or transfer of results,” Okoye said.
He said when polls closed at the level of the various units, the Presiding Officer who superintended the polling unit would enter the scores of the various political parties in form EC8A which is the polling unit level result.
He said, “The PO will sign that particular result sheet and stamp it, the PU agent or party agent if available will also countersign and copies will be given to them and the police.
“That original result will be what will be scanned and uploaded to our INEC Result Viewing Portal for public viewing. Not only that, the accreditation data that has arisen from that polling unit will also be uploaded, but the physical result and the BVAS itself will also be taken to the Registration Area Collation centre.”
According to Okoye, the Collation Officer will have the benefit of seeing the original results and the BVAS itself and have the benefit of looking at the accreditation data as transmitted, and the result sheet as transmitted from the polling unit.
That is the dual mode that the law has prescribed for the commission and that is the mode that we’re going to use for the purpose of this election.
“The commission is determined to improve on its previous performance. What we have done is to learn valuable lessons from previous elections that we conducted, and we’re going to put those lessons into our planning purposes and processes, and into our deployment purposes,” Okoye said.
