The Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), has released its Regulations and Guidelines for the Conduct of Elections, 2022. It announced this on its official Twitter handle: @inecnigeria, yesterday.
The Commission tweeted, The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has unveiled the revised INEC Regulations and Guidelines for the Conduct of Elections.
The 37-page document, downloadable from the commissions website, contains 106 guidelines and regulations for elections as well as health measures during the conduct of elections.
In article 30 of the guideline, the Commission stated that telephones and electronic devices capable of taking pictures are not allowed in polling booths.
Voters may come to the polling unit with telephones and other electronic devices provided that they do not take them to the voting cubicles, or take pictures of other voters while they are voting, it stated.
INEC also, among other things, approved the electronic transmission of election results in the new guideline.
