A top INEC employee has come out to tell the true reason why the commission was unable to publish the results of the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections to its platform.
According to a source who requested anonymity, the commission’s inability to upload results on election day was caused by a code fault that originated from the server program.
According to the source, the code issue foiled INEC’s intention to post the results on election day.
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He explained that the code mistake originated within the application itself and hampered the upload of results, and that all efforts by INEC’s team of Information Technology experts to address the code issue failed.
The source said “The technical glitch that hampered the transmission of the presidential result was a code error that kept crashing the server, which kept prompting an HTTP 500 error. This sort of error originated from within the application.”
According to news reports, the commission was heavily chastised for failing to publish results from the presidential and national assembly elections.
This online news site learned, however, that as of Saturday, two weeks following the election, the commission had posted 168,711 of the 176,846 polling stations on its webpage, or 95% of the results uploaded.
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Remember that a day after the election, INEC released 41,649 polling results, or less than 30% of the results, to its viewing platform.
However, the source claimed that the commission has fixed the code error technical issue and has also implemented a backup system ahead of the March 18 governorship elections.
He also stated that the commission had dispatched its technical teams to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) ahead of the March 18 governorship and state assembly elections, in response to the Appeal Court’s order to reconfigure the over 176,000 BVAS machines that will be used in the March 18 elections.
An official of the commission disclosed that “INEC has commenced the reconfiguration of the BVAS nationwide. The RATechs (Registration Area Technical Support) deployed to support the BVAS during the February 25 election are the ones reconfiguring the devices.
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“INEC has sufficient skilled staff members to handle the reconfiguration. Yes, the technical issue has been resolved and there is a backup plan in place to forestall reoccurrence.”
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