The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has revealed that it carried out a mock test of the recent update on the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) in 289 polling units across the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
INEC’s Deputy Director of Information and Publicity, Wilfred Ifogah, disclosed this on Thursday during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily.
He was reacting to the just concluded FCT Area Council election. “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