The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, says it acknowledges the challenges to the optimal functionality of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) and they are working to review and improve its functionality for biometric accreditation of voters in the forthcoming by-elections and off-season Governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun States just before the 2023 General Elections.
The Chairman of the Commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu who stated this while addressing Resident Electoral Commissioners at the first consultative meeting for the year, said, the outcome of all elections conducted since the introduction of BVAS had been positively adjudged by observers as credible.
He said the BVAS has performed optimally in verifying the authenticity of Permanent Voter Cards and uploading images of Polling Unit results and that the Commission is convinced that the deployment of technology in elections, will safeguard the integrity of the vote and provide a better guarantee for electoral credibility than the best manual process.
According to the INEC Chairman, the Commission has over the years made giant strides in improving electoral logistics, staff recruitment, training, deployment and introduction of technology for voter verification and authentication on Election Day.
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