Saturday 6th Nov.2021:The Independent National Electoral Commission has said that it will upload election results from the 5,634 polling units to its result-viewing portal in today’s governorship election in Anambra State.
The commission disclosed that though the collation of results would be done manually as obtained in previous elections and not with the uploaded results, it however expressed confidence that the technological approach, designed to enhance transparency in the election management process, would boost people’s confidence in elections and enable Nigerians to view polling unit results in real time as voting ends.
INEC had introduced the technology uploads system in August 2020 and was first used by the electoral body in the August 8, 2020 Nasarawa Central State Constituency bye-election and was later deployed in the Edo and Ondo states governorship elections held on September 19 and October 10, 2020, respectively.
Festus Okoye, its National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, told newsmen on Thursday that after the commission had successfully converted 1,112 voting points to full-fledged polling units, making the total polling units in the state rise to 5,720.
He said 86 polling units would not be used because the commission could not carry out batch transfers because of insecurity and the inability to carry out intensive civic and voter education.
