The Independent National Electoral Commission has announced
the release of its Regulations and Guidelines for the Conduct of Elections,
2022.
INEC announced this on its official Twitter page,
@inecnigeria, on Friday.
The commission tweeted, “The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood
Yakubu, has unveiled the revised INEC Regulations and Guidelines for the
Conduct of Elections.”
The 37-page document, downloadable from the commission’s
website, contains 106 guidelines and regulations for elections as well as
health measures during conduct of elections.
In article 30 of the guideline, the commission stated that
telephones and electronic devices capable of taking pictures are not allowed in
polling booths.
Article 30, ‘Prohibition of the Use of Telephones and Other
Electronic/Photographic Devices in the Voting Cubicle,’ states that,
“Telephones and other electronic devices capable of taking pictures are not
allowed in voting cubicles.
“Voters may come to the Polling Unit with telephones and
other electronic devices provided that they do not take them to the voting
cubicles or take pictures of other voters while they are voting.”
INEC also, among other things, approved the electronic
transmission of election results in the new guideline.
In article 38, ‘Electronic Transmission of Results and
Upload of Results to IReV,’ the commission stated that, “On completion of all
the Polling Unit voting and results procedures, the Presiding Officer shall:
“(i) Electronically transmit or transfer the result of the
Polling Unit, direct to the collation system as prescribed by the Commission.
“(ii) Use the BVAS to upload a scanned copy of the EC8A to
the INEC Result Viewing Portal (IReV), as prescribed by the Commission.
“(iii) Take the BVAS ( Bimodal Voter Accreditation System)
and the original copy of each of the forms in tamper evident envelope to the
Registration Area/Ward Collation Officer, in the company of Security Agents.
The Polling Agents may accompany the Presiding Officer to the RA/Ward Collation
Centre.”
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