For the supplemental elections on Saturday, April 15, around 3,000 Bimodal Voter Authentication Systems (BVAS) would be implemented.
According to news reports, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has stated that the BVAS to be used will be configured and re-configured prior to the polls on Saturday.
The electoral umpire is expected to hold additional elections in 2,660 voting units spread over 185 local government areas in 24 states.
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The commission stated that all outstanding governorship, national, and state Assembly supplemental elections will be place in locations where they had previously been stopped owing to problems, including violence, for which the poll was ruled inconclusive.
This online news platform learns that an INEC source who spoke on the condition of anonymity informed The Punch that over 2,000 BVAS would be re-programmed and some new BVAS would be configured to replace stolen or damaged devices during the 2023 general elections.
The source said “There are some BVAS that will be configured afresh, because the ones deployed for the previous election were either stolen or damaged.
We cannot reconfigure stolen or damaged BVAS, so we need to configure fresh device for such PUs.
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“We are reconfiguring close to 2,500 BVAS and configuring few numbers afresh plus backups.
“The total BVAS that will be deployed, including backup, will be a little above 3,000.”
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