The contingency strategy in case the Bimodal Voter Registration System, or BVAS, machines malfunction at polling places during the general elections of 2023 has been made public by the Independent National Electoral Commission, or INEC.
According to INEC spokesman Festus Okoye, the Commission would make sure that there were extra BVAS at every voting location.
According to Okoye, INEC has already planned for the usage of the BVAS in the nation’s more than 176,000 polling places.
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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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