WITH less than sixteen days to the general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission has guaranteed that the Bimodal Voter Registration System cannot be manipulated.
INEC’s deputy director of information and communications technology, Lawrence Bayode, stated this yesterday during an interview on Channels Television’s special election show, The 2023 Verdict.
Elections in the past have seen violence by hoodlums and ballot box stealing.
Bayode however stated that in order to prevent anyone who snatched the device on election day from being able to manipulate the votes, the BVAS will be deactivated from the back-end.
He said, “If a BVAS is snatched, we have a system in place that can deactivate that particular BVAS.
“We deactivate it so that whoever snatches the device will not be able to do anything with the device because the device pushes the accreditation data automatically on its own even without the operator pushing a button. When it is idle, it pushes that accreditation data to the back-end.”
Bayode said if hoodlums take the device to other places where they think they can manipulate the data on the device, the polling unit officer will report the incident.
He noted, “If such thing happens, the PO reports and from the back-end, that device is deactivated so that the person who took away that device will not be able to do anything with the device.”
