Country The INEC has a collation mechanism that can operate with or without a network, according to ActionAid director Andrew Mamedu.
This was stated by Mamedu on Thursday during an interview with ‘Prime Time’ on Arise Television.
He was commenting on the Senate’s continuing discussion of a change to the Electoral Act.
Gistcon 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.
“So, let’s turn back a bit,” Mamedu responded. A mandatory accreditation requirement was introduced in an amendment passed in 2022 just before the most recent election, the 2023 election.
That means you might utilise the incidence form previously. 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 those very BVAS can certify each and every voter in that particular voting precinct. The machine that snaps the results and sends them to iReV is the same equipment.
“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.”