The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has acknowledged that a glitch affected the seamless operation of the INEC Result Viewing Portal, IReV, during the 2023 presidential election.
INEC Chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakub stated in the foreword of
the report: “This report documents the major activities the Commission carried
out in the preparation and conduct of the General Election, beginning from
mid-2019.
“This early preparation was in keeping with what has become
the Commission’s practice of long-range systematic planning and execution of
the country’s elections since 2010.”
The electoral body primarily attributed the glitch to the
intricate, sensitive, and critical nature of the systems, coupled with the
genuine threat of malicious cyberattacks.
The IReV portal is one of the most significant innovations
introduced by the commission before the 2023 general elections to promote the
integrity and transparency of the electoral process.
As a public-facing website, the IReV portal shows images of
the original polling unit result sheets as recorded in Form EC8A.
The 526-page report was published by the commission on its
website.
The report partly reads: “The challenge of uploading the PU
presidential election results on the IReV after the presidential and NASS
elections on 25th February 2023, was unique.
“As voting ended across the country and POs began the
process of uploading the images of the PU result sheets of the elections for
the various constituencies around 4:00 pm, the commission began to receive
reports that attempts to upload presidential election result sheets were
failing.
“Following these reports, the commission immediately engaged
with its field officials for details in order to understand and trace the
origin, source, scale, and magnitude of the problem across the result
management ecosystem to devise appropriate solutions.”
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