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INEC says 2023 election results will be collated manually

Victor Amadu by Victor Amadu
August 21, 2022
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has revealed that, despite the introduction of electronic transmission of results, the collation of the results of the general elections in 2023 would be done manually.

The Electoral Act is clear on how collation should be done, but Festus Okoye, INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman of its Information and Voter Education Committee, who made the disclosure in an interview with The Punch, emphasized that the commission would transmit results from polling units to its result-viewing portal, IReV, as witnessed in recent elections.

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“There is a marked difference between the transfer/transmission of results and the collation of results. Section 50(2) of the Electoral Act, 2022 gives the commission the absolute discretion to determine the mode and procedure of voting in an election and the transmission of election results,” he said.

“Sections 60 and 62 of the Electoral Act govern post-election procedure and collation of election results. Section 60(1) of the Act provides that the presiding officer shall, after counting the votes at a polling unit, enter the votes scored by each candidate in a form to be prescribed by the commission.

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“Section 60(5) of the Act makes it mandatory that the presiding officer shall transfer the results, including total number of accredited voters and the results of the ballot in a manner prescribed by the commission. Thereafter, the presiding officer shall after recording and announcing the results deliver the same along with election materials under security and accompanied by the candidates or their polling agents, where available to such person as may be prescribed by the commission.

“The implication of this is that the collation process of results is still essentially manual, but the collation officer must collate subject to his verification and confirmation that the number of accredited voters stated on the collated result are correct and consistent with the number of accredited voters recorded and transmitted directly from polling units.”

Okoye stated that while the collation of results would “basically” be done manually, in the event of a disagreement regarding a collated result or the result from any polling unit, the collation or returning officer would use the original of the disputed collated result, accreditation data from the BVAS device, and the results transmitted directly from the polling unit to determine the authenticity of the result.

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