The essence of the BVAS machine and its usefulness in checking over-voting has been correctly outlined by the judgment of the Osun tribunal.
The lessons here are essentially for INEC. Get only those who mean well for Nigeria to act as Collation or Returning Officers. We have them accross all professions; not teachers or lecturers alone. The second lesson is that INEC must never put itself under any pressure in declaring results. Do due diligence, as required by Section 64 of the Electoral Act, before announcing a winner. That way, you will not turn our judges to mathematicians to be counting and collating results.
3. If you vote without accreditation by BVAS, you have only put in jeopardy the votes of others in your polling unit. … INEC saw clearly that there were huge problems with the results that were challenged. Instead of simply admitting these errors, it then went ahead to do a review and then issued what it called, SYNCHRONISED RESULTS. Now, whats that? Working from an answer to the question?
The lessons here are essentially for INEC. Get only those who mean well for Nigeria to act as Collation or Returning Officers. We have them accross all professions; not teachers or lecturers alone. The second lesson is that INEC must never put itself under any pressure in declaring results. Do due diligence, as required by Section 64 of the Electoral Act, before announcing a winner. That way, you will not turn our judges to mathematicians to be counting and collating results.
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