By Ishola Oludare The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has revealed that it has abolished the time frame between the...
By Ishola Oludare
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has
revealed that it has abolished the time frame between the accreditation of
voters and the voting proper.
According to INEC, voters will now be allowed to vote
immediately after they are accredited at their various polling units in the
2023 general elections.
DAILY POST recalls that in previous elections, accreditation
used to take place in the morning, while accredited voters return to vote later
at noon.
It was gathered in most polling units that some accredited
voters failed to return to vote, creating a difference between the number of
accredited voters and the total votes cast.
Speaking on TVC’s Your Views on Monday, INEC spokesperson,
Festus Okoye, said voters would now be allowed to cast their votes immediately
after they must have been successfully accredited through the Bimodal Voter
Accreditation System (BVAS) only.
“We no longer do differential accreditation and voting. We
do simultaneous accreditation and voting. For the 2023 elections, it is going
to be simultaneous accreditation and voting. We are not going to have a
differential timeframe in terms of accreditation and voting,” Okoye said.
He maintained that all voters must be accredited through the
BVAS, adding that the machine would be used to scan the results and send same
electronically from the polling unit to the INEC portal.
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