The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has disclosed
the contingency plan if the Bimodal Voter Registration System, BVAS, machines
fail at polling units during the 2023 general elections.
INEC spokesman Festus Okoye disclosed that the Commission
would ensure the availability of spare BVAS at every polling unit.
Okoye said INEC has already made provision for the use of
the BVAS in the over 176,000 polling units in the country.
Speaking with Channels Television, Okoye said: “For each
electoral ward, we are going to have some spare BVAS to be deployed speedily if
there is any issue or any challenge in any of our polling units. We have also
trained technical support staff that can also intervene if there is any
challenge with the BVAS.
“But if there is sustained malfunction of the BVAS up to the
time of the closing of the poll, the Electoral Act demands that we should
undermine voting in that particular polling unit and repeat voting within 24
hours.”
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