FCT polls: What er did with BVAS before the election – INEC opens up

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) reported that it carried out a mock trial of the update made to the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) in 289 polling units throughout the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

This was revealed on Thursday by Wilfred Ifogah, the Deputy Director of Information and Publicity at INEC, during an interview as a guest on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily’.

He was responding to the FCT Area Council election that had just concluded.

“Prior to the FCT elections, we did a mock trial for the update that was done on the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, in 289 polling units all around FCT.

“After results are calculated at polling units, the presiding officer enters this data into the BVAS.

“If the scanned image of the EC8A form, containing tabulated results, does not align with the accredited voter numbers and figures already recorded in BVAS, the system will not process the submission until accuracy is verified.

“This indicates an updated BVAS feature enabling it to validate scanned information against pre-recorded data, beyond merely capturing and transmitting photos,” he said.

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