Tag: BVAS

“BVAS doesn’t require Internet on election day” – Yakubu

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Yakubu on BVAS

Former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has clarified that the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) does not require internet connectivity to function on election day. Yakubu explained that voter accreditation using BVAS is conducted offline, stressing that the device is designed to verify voters through fingerprint and facial recognition without relying on internet access. According to him, connectivity is only needed later for the transmission of election data to INEC’s Result Viewing (IReV) portal. He made the clarification amid recurring concerns and public debates…

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Presidential election: ’BVAS failed to transmit Feb 25 results’ – INEC staff

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Two subpoenaed witnesses of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 25 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar yesterday in Abuja admitted at the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) that the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) failed to transmit results of the election after collation. The witnesses, Friday Egwuma and Grace Timothy, who are both ad-hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said that the BVAS machine allocated to them developed system error immediately results of the Senate and House of Representatives aspects of the…

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Reconfiguration of BVAS: INEC reassures Nigerians of safety of information

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has reassured Nigerians of the safety of the information stored in the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, (BVAS). Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee of INEC, Festus Okoye, gave this assurance yesterday as a guest during a television programme. Okoye, while responding to the question of the likely loss of data captured by the BVAS and INEC Result Viewing Portal, (iReV) if it is reconfigured, promised Nigerians that the information inside them wouldn’t in any way be lost or tempered with. Prior to…

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2023: Court to rule today on Obi, INEC’s BVAS case

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The Court of Appeal, Abuja has fixed today, Wednesday to consider the merit of the application the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), filed to be allowed to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, (BVAS) used for the just-concluded presidential election. Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, (LP), Peter Obi and LP, through their team of lawyers led by Onyechi Ikpeazu, (SAN), said the essence of the application was to enable them to extract data embedded in the BVAS, “which represent the actual results from Polling Units.” They equally applied to…

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Reactions trail INEC’s move to reconfigure BVAS ahead of guber polls

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Some supporters of the Labour Party, (LP), have raised alarm over a move by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to reconfigure its Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS), ahead of Saturday’s governorship election, alleging that it is a plot to wipe out evidence of possible manipulation of the February 25 presidential election. The electoral body had approached the Court of Appeal in Abuja, praying it to vary the orders it granted for candidates of the Labour Party, and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to be allowed to inspect sensitive materials that…

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Politicians trying to manufacture BVAS – INEC official allege

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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 Commission’s server ahead of the 2023 general election. This was as he reiterated the electoral umpire’s 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,…

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2023: “Ignore those harvesting last 3 digits of PVCs, they can’t beat the BVAS” – INEC

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Shocks may be awaiting those going round some States collecting the last three digits of peoples’ Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs. This is because their suspected plan to use the details to sabotage voting or use the digits to access the PVCs and gain more votes would not work. This disclosure was made in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Thursday, by the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) Rivers State’s Head of Voter Education and Publicity, Mark Usulor. Usulor spoke at Day One of a three-day voter education conference series by WhillzTrust…

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BVAS: Adamu recants, says APC not opposed to new electoral technologies

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National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has disclaimed reports going round that he is opposed to the deployment of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Results Viewing Portal, IReV, for next year’s general election. Adamu, at a news conference yesterday in Abuja, said he was only concerned about the challenges of electricity supply and irregular telecommunication signals in some voting districts of the country. The APC helmsman had earlier been reported to have said that he was…

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BVAS: ‘Vote buyers will waste their money in 2023’ – Ex-INEC Commissioner

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A former resident electoral commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mike Igini, has said that politicians who plan to engage in vote buying during the 2023 general elections will not get the desired results. Igini stated this on a television programme yesterday, on the issue of Bi-modal Voter Registration System (BVAS) and vote buying. BVAS is a device introduced by INEC which allows for accreditation of voters through biometric capturing and uploading of election results at polling units. Stakeholders have described BVAS as an upgrade of the smart-card…

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