Resident Electoral Commissioner for Osun State, Dr Mutiu Agboke, speaks to BOLA BAMIGBOLA about the preparation of the Independent National Electoral Commission for the forthcoming general elections, among other related issues
There have been attacks from some quarters on the reliability of the BVAS. How reliable is that machine?
Again, the issue of results; you know I said that accreditation is one of the points of manipulation in the process and BVAS has helped us to secure it. The e-result is another thing. Overtime, INEC has been improving on checking the manipulation of results until we got to the BVAS. During the time of smart card reader, it was an improvement and a departure from the previous experience. But total departure now from the fraudulent vote process is the issue of BVAS.
Technology is a function of human effort. Technology development is meant to facilitate human endeavours and no matter how highly developed it may be, it doesn’t mean that it is not still susceptible to one error or the other. But that error is not enough reason to say it is total rubbish. It is one thing to want to destroy, penetrate, have an incursion into human effort, which is called technology and it is another thing for you to succeed.
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