60% of PVCs yet to be collected in Kano State ahead of elections
The Resident Electoral Commissioner in Kano State, Ambassador Zango Abdu, has reported that 60% of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) have...
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The Resident Electoral Commissioner in Kano State, Ambassador Zango Abdu, has reported that 60% of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) have...
[ODUNEWS] January 17 –INEC Chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, addressing on Tuesday at the Chatham House in London, praised the commission’s in-house engineers for the creation of the BVAS and for always coming up with novel ideas and designs to improve the election process.According to him, a commission engineer offered using body odour to authenticate voters, but he had to ask them to wait. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) may use body odour for voter verification in the near futureas part of its growing aim to integrate technology into Nigeria’s electoral process. Voters were once confirmed simply by looking at their paper ballots and verifying the voter register. However, in 2012, INEC introduced Smart Card Readers SCR to validate the Permanent Voter Cards PVCs, which carried voters’ faces. During this time, INEC also used the Automated Facial Identification System (AFIS) to purge the voter rolls. As politicians devised ways to circumvent the system, the electoral umpire went a step further by instituting the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS), which verifies both the facials and the ballots....
INEC says the 2023 election will hold as scheduled despite attacks on its facilities in some parts of the country.
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