Without insisting on getting the right answers, the upcoming general elections stand a great risk of being technically compromised. From outright snatching of ballot boxes to attempting to snatch the same ballot boxes through the courts, Nigeria has made substantial progress in election management and electoral law reforms since 1999. Yet, our politicians have never shed even an ounce of their desperation.
2023: Eight Questions INEC Should And Must Answer Before The First Ballot Is Cast, By Chima ChristianWithout insisting on getting the right answers, the upcoming general elections stand a great risk of being technically compromised.
That is why Nigerians must interrogate all the systems and processes that INEC relies on to process the voting decisions of Nigerians. So that such avenues for technical manipulation of the system are mitigated.
INEC, through its Commissioner of Voter Education, Festus Okoye, initially told Nigerians that the new data capturing protocol deployed during the last continuous voter register makes it difficult to manipulate. Yet, desperate politicians, working hand-in-hand with a few compromised INEC staff found a way to beat the system and on-board fake registrants. This is evidenced by the displayed voter register and what is now referred to as"Omuma Magic.
Is INEC able to publish the exact number of data capturing devices it deployed for the June 2021 - July 2022 CVR exercise, and is it able to publish a detailed breakdown of how those devices were deployed and the justification for such deployments? As you answer the question, please be mindful that these lopsided invalidations were done using the ABIS software that curiously on-boarded a lot of double, multiple, underaged and outrightly fake registrants.
I ask that question because there were a lot of voters who presented their duly issued PVCs on election day, saw their names on the register displayed at the polling units, yet the BIVAS refused to accredit them using the two authentication modalities.
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