The Head of Department, Voter Education and Publicity of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Achumie Rex, yesterday, alleged that some politicians were making frantic efforts to manufacture the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, (BVAS) machine and hack into the Commissions server ahead of the 2023 general election.
This was as he reiterated the electoral umpires resolve to make the 2023 general election free and fair, adding that there would be simultaneous accreditation and voting on election days.
Rex stated this at a two-day workshop for civil society organisations on Voter Education, organised by the Transition Monitoring Group and supported by the USAID.
Fielding questions from participants shortly after delivering a paper, titled: Technology and 2023 election commission, Rex revealed that INEC was working round the clock to ensure that the integrity of its server was maintained during and after the elections.
He said, There is no room to hack into INEC server, adding that politicians are doing everything possible to get into the INEC server or even to manufacture BVAS, but unfortunately for them, INEC is three steps ahead of their plots.
Allaying fears of network problems that would make BVAS work effectively at the rural areas, he said that BVAS was built on a dual basis – online and offline.
