The Independent National Electoral Commission has maintained that it will not adopt electronic voting in the forthcoming general elections in the country.
The Chief Press Secretary to the Chairman of INEC, Mr. Kayode Idowu, however, said on Friday that while the electronics voting was illegal, the register from the last registration exercise would be used in its manual form for the conduct of the elections.
He said that even though electronics voting was not an option because it did not have a backing in the constitution, the electronics register was not an illegality.
He maintained that the voters register that would be used for the April poll was a replica of the electronic register that was produced during the last registration exercise.
He said, “Well, let me make the clarification that while it is illegal to use electronic voting, it is not illegal to use the electronic voters register.
“That is why the commission is using the manual register that was produced directly from the last voters registration exercise for the April polls.
“The voter register that will be used for the April elections will be a product of the data electronically gathered with the DDC machines during the recent voter registration exercise.
“This is to correct the impression that the Electoral Act outlaws electronic register... what the Electoral Act outlaws is electronic voting.
“However, the register to be used is a processed product of electronic registration even though it will be printed out on paper since the machines are for data gathering and not to be used for voting purposes.”
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