The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has dispelled worries that the bimodal voter accreditation system’s BVAS functionality was negatively impacted by technical issues with its Results Viewing Portal IReV during last Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly Elections, claiming that the two technologies are practically incompatible.
The single area of agreement, according to the commission, is the use of Huang the BVAS to send the election results from polling places to the IReV after the polls have closed.
“There is also a provision for the BVAS to transmit the PU result in the offline mode if there is no network at the polling unit at the time of the activity”, said Chief Press Secretary CPS to the INEC Chairman, Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi.
The INEC Result Viewing Portal (IReV) and the BVAS are two distinct and independent entities, Oyekanmi revealed
While speaking further, Chief Press Secretary says “
“The relationship between the two is that the BVAS is used to transmit the picture of Form EC8A, which is the Polling Unit Result Sheet in PDF format, as well as the Voters’ Accreditation Data to the IREV.
“Therefore, the glitches suffered by the IReV for some hours on 25th February could not have affected the functionality of the BVAS, which in any case, performed its duty excellently on election day”, he said.