Any Bimodal Voter Registration Systems (BVAS) seized by political thugs on election day would be deactivated from the backend, rendering them worthless for the attackers, according to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
This was claimed by INEC to reassure Nigerians that it was prepared for the general elections on February 25 and March 11.
This was announced by Lawrence Bayode, the INEC’s Deputy Director of Information and Communications Technology, on Wednesday during the special election show The 2023 Verdict on Channels Television.
In the event that the devices are stolen, Bayode claimed that the deactivation of BVAS from the backend will prevent the accreditation and authentication of voters for the general elections from being exploited by criminals.
“If a BVAS is snatched, we have a system in place that can deactivate that particular BVAS,” said Bayode.
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“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 backend.”
Nigerian elections since the inception of the current democratic dispensation from 1999 have been threatened with ballot-box snatching and violence at some polling units by hoodlums and gunmen.
The electoral body understands this and expressed confidence in the security agents in the country, as well as affirming what it can do in its capacity.
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