2019: INEC to announce result electronically

Success Damian:
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed that physical copies and electronics will be used to announce results of the 2019 elections.
Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the Chairman of INEC, said this during a visit to the Executive Vice-Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, Prof. Umar Danbatta, in Abuja recently..
Speaking further he said, “We are planning for full deployment (of electronic and manual transmission) this year in governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun. Thereafter we intend to deploy the system in the 2019 general elections.
“INEC has developed the hardware and software. However, we rely on the operators for the transmission of both the figures and scanned images of result sheets. We wish to assure Nigerians that while we transmit the raw figures from polling units, scanned images of the result sheets will also be transmitted electronically in addition to physical copies given to party agents at polling units.”
He prayed NCC as the regulator to facilitate a meeting between INEC and the telecommunications operators with the aim of assisting the electoral body in the conduct of the election.
“Similarly, we would like the NCC to facilitate discussions with operators on ways of enhancing their corporate social responsibility to Nigeria’s electoral process. An immediate area of interest to INEC is how the operators can help in voter education and publicity.
“Towards the 2019 general elections, we would like the operators in collaboration with INEC, to send bulk SMS and possibly voice messages as well on the imperative of peaceful elections, the collection of Permanent Voter Cards by registered voters and directional information on the location of polling units for easy access to voters.”
The Executive Vice-Chairman of the NCC said his agency would try to help the electoral body to ensure that the 2019 elections are free, fair and credible
He said the NCC would try to improve the security of the communications system before the 2019 election so that it would be effective for the dissemination of election results.


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