The Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) has launched a portal where election results from
polling units can be viewed in real time.
In a statement on Thursday,
Festus Okoye, INEC spokesman, said the portal will “strengthen the transparency
in the election result management system.”
He said the use of the portal
will start with the Nasarawa central state constituency election after which it
will also be deployed in Edo and Ondo governorship polls.
Okoye, however, said the measure
does not constitute electronic collation of results as collation of election
results shall remain a manual process as provided by the law.
The management of results in
previous elections has been a major source of concern in Nigeria’s electoral
process, with some parties often crying foul by the end of collation.
He said INEC is determined to
address these concerns as “it is a fundamental principle of democracy that in
elections, votes are not only correctly counted, but that they also count.”
“To further strengthen the
transparency in the election result management system, the Commission has
decided to introduce a dedicated public portal, the INEC RESULT VIEWING (IReV),
that will enable Nigerians to view Polling Unit results real time as the voting
ends on election day,” the statement read.
“The Commission wishes to
emphasize that this does not constitute electronic collation of results. The
collation of election results shall remain as provided for by law, a manual
process of completion of relevant result sheets and their upwards collation
until the final results are determined.
“The Commission hopes that this
innovation would improve the transparency in election result management and
therefore further consolidate public confidence in the electoral process.”
Ahead of the Nasarawa election
holding on Saturday, the commission said at the end of the election, the result
sheet can be assessed on the INEC results viewing portal (IReV) after the
registration process has been completed.
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