Opening of the Polling Units:
On each Election Day, polling stations will open for Accreditation and Voting from 8:00 am to 2.00 pm. However, voters on the queue before the close of poll at 2:00pm will be accredited and allowed to vote.

Voting Procedure:
Voting at the polling unit will be as follows:

Step 1:

At the polling unit, join the queue. An INEC official will check if you are at the correct polling unit and confirm that the PVC presented belongs to you.

Step 2:

An INEC official will confirm if your PVC is genuine using the card reader. You will be asked to place your finger on the card reader.

Step 3:

An INEC official will ask for your PVC and confirm you are listed in the Voters Register. Your name will be ticked and your finger will be inked to confirm you have voted. If your name is not found you cannot vote.

Step 4:

The Presiding officer will stamp, sign and endorse your ballot paper. You will be given the ballot paper rolled with the printed side inwards and directed to the voting cubicle.

Step 5:

Stain your finger with the ink given and mark the box for your preferred candidate/party. Roll the ballot paper in the manner you were given and flatten it.

Step 6:

Leave the voting cubicle and drop the ballot paper in the ballot box in full view of people at the Polling Unit.

Step 7:

Leave the Polling Unit or wait if you so choose, in an orderly and peaceful manner, to watch the process up to declaration of result.

N.B: The result of each Polling Unit shall be pasted at the unit for everyone to see.

Your right as a voter:

On each Election Day, you have the right to:
•Access the polling station
•Receive information on the voting procedures from the poll officials
•Vote in secret.

Responsibility of the Voter:
•Obey all lawful instructions from the INEC and Security Officials on election duty.
•Leave the polling unit or wait if you so choose in an orderly and peaceful manner.
•Encourage other voters to do likewise.

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS:
1.Federal Constituency Election Results:The LGA Collation Officer in charge of the Federal constituency (House of Representatives) elections shall: •Receive the original copies of result sheets from the Registration Area/Ward Collation Officer;
•Collate and add up the results to obtain the LGA summary;
•Submits the result to the Constituency Collation/Returning Officer.


The Constituency/Returning Officer shall:
•Collate the results received from the LGA Collation Officers into the appropriate result sheet;
•Enter the score of each candidate into the Declaration of Result Form for the Federal Constituency and return as elected the candidate with the highest number of valid votes cast at the Federal Constituency Election.

2.Senatorial District Election Results:The Senatorial District Collation/Returning Officer shall: •Take delivery of the original copies of the results from the LGA Collation Officers;
•Collate the results into the Senatorial District result form;
•Enter the score of each candidate into the declaration of result form for the Senate and return as elected the candidate who scores the highest number of valid votes cast at the Senatorial District Election.


PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION:
•Presiding Officers send results of poll to the RA/Ward Collation Officer;
•RA/Ward CO collates results and sends to LGA Collation Officer;
•LGA Collation Officer shall collate results and send to State Collation Officer;
•State Collation Officer collates results and sends to the Chief Electoral Commissioner (Chairman INEC);
•The Chief Electoral Commissioner (Chief Returning Officer) collates results from the State Collation Officers, declares the result and returns the winner as President elect of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

NOTE:
•The Presiding Officers/Collation Officers at the various levels complete the result sheet and request the party agents available to countersign. Duplicate copy of the result is made available to each one while the original is taken to the next level of collation.
•The Presiding Officers/Collation Officers at each level completes the notice of results of poll and paste at the Polling Unit or Collation Centre.
•Where the margin of win between the two leading candidates is not in excess of the total number of registered voters of the Polling Unit(s) where the election was cancelled or not held, the Returning Officer shall decline to make a return until another poll has taken place in the affected Polling Unit(s) and the results incorporated into the existing one.

9jatriot:
Before any game or contest is held, all the players in the contest are told what the rules of the games are, winning criteria, pass mark and any other details to ensure fairness, that is why everyone knows what the rules of a football game are for example.
Now to the 2019 election that was held in Nigeria, INEC released guidelines and were very clear about the process.
For those of us who may have forgotten, you can easily get the information from INEC Website; https://www.inecnigeria.org/voter-education/collation-and-declaration-of-results/ for the full details. Below is an extract and an image copy of the website of the voting process.

Now at the end of the voting process, once again from INEC website are the steps to announcing results.



The outline steps explains exactly the steps INEC used in their election process. At no time before the election was the issue of the server debated, as a matter of fact, knowing our propensity for arguing about everything and anything, I am sure both parties would have accused each other of trying to control the server. Also during the election, we all followed the results as they made their way from polling units, to various collation centres and still no news about a server and INEC never referred to results from any server. The first news about server came from PDP when they submitted their petition to the tribunal. I admit, they caught everyone off guide, at least I was.
First it was greeted with disbelief, followed by confusions, then denial and more confusion.
Those who know the electoral law in Nigeria know that even a fresh graduate can get the petition thrown out for lack of merit but it is the audacity of PDP's claim that worries any sane Nigeria.

To understand what is really going on in the camp of PDP is to cast you mind to a not too distant past. In a bid to have greater control over his stooges, Saraki tried to reorder elections, when the president refused to ascent, he sent a revised version and almost skilfully removed the card reader, again the eagle eyed president saw the loophole and sent it back, from that point, any thing sent in by Saraki with regards to the election was view with great suspicion, which was probably why the final one which was sent for ascent few weeks before election was also not accented to.
It was in that final one that the trap PDP had set was based. That one was the one that allowed for transmitting results electronically. Now the question is, what was the plan of the desperate Atiku and his very cunny accomplice Saraki? well, the server result was to be the game plan. If Buhari had signed that document, he would have been seriously outplayed by those who do not mean well for democracy. How PDP planned to benefit from the electronic transmission of results will remain a subject of conjectures, but what is clear is that they have advanced in their rigging plans and had almost succeeded in passing a PDP rigging document into law in Nigeria. but for the vigilance of the suspicious executive.
This also is a failure of the executive in not being able to have a firm grip on governance at all levels.

It is the ulterior motive on the part of PDP and her agents that made them know that INEC was already getting ready for an election that will be electronic, only that rather try to enhance it, they wanted to benefit using underhand tactics.

My personal opinion
I think INEC has been preparing their capacity for electronic voting which perhaps explains their large budget, but as the law wasn't passed, they probably decided to test run the system anyway as an inhouse way checking how reliable the system would be. That probably explains why their ad hoc staffs were trained on how to send the information to the system or server, unfortunately, it was not really enforced as there was no system in place to ensure all who were meant to do it actually did. That information would have probably served as a basis for learning the lessons from the test run once the elections are over while they make a case for its full deployment in future elections.
The question remains, how come PDP was able to know about a purely internal process of INEC while the other parties were only following the outline INEC displayed.
Secondly, since the data in the server (assuming it exist) was gotten by PDP, then an inquest has to be held as to how such an internal sensitive data was compromised.
Thirdly, if it is found that PDP uploaded a fake data into the server defeating the purpose of the test run from which INEC would have benefitted, then heads should roll, starting from the INEC staffs that are inside INEC sensitive IT positions who have access to such information.
Fourthly, INEC should also thank PDP for exposing the fact that although electronic voting may have its benefits, rogue parties like the PDP will opt instead to pay hackers to compromise the system and should therefore put measures in place to ensure that their is data integrity and security.

nagastat:
This is logical.

Amuocha:
Criminals online spewing thrash

udemzyudex:
Anything to console yourself is allowed.

The INEC presiding officers have spoken, INEC chairman even said the same thing but you guys want to claim you're wiser than them all.

Do yourself a favour and join the INEC or APC legal team to defend them at the tribunal.

Stop disturbing us with all this baseless threads.

GavelSlam:
Atiku and Saraki had it planned all along.

The president was smart enough to withold assent otherwise a coup would have taken place with the likes of Onnoghen giving legal backing yo the outcome.

Those criminals would never rule Nigeria.

Awol1:


When everything is going digital, even the payment of worker's salary, you are here celebrating an analogue president for declining assent towards digitalizing our electoral system.

Jesusloveyou:
the jobless aggressive lazy terrorist are the ones consoling themselves with unforeseen result from unknown server.

if the results was transmitted to inec server from poling unit,
where did ward collation center transmitted to?
where did LGA collation center transmitted their collated result to,?
where State collation center transmitted to?
why didn't abuja collation center received State collation center result from inec server. and inec chairman should have announced the final result from inec server

GavelSlam:
Atiku and Saraki had it planned all along.

The president was smart enough to withold assent otherwise a coup would have taken place with the likes of Onnoghen giving legal backing to the outcome.

Those criminals would never rule Nigeria.

udemzyudex:


I hope you're part of INEC/APC legal team.

GavelSlam:


Stupid suggestion.

This is a public discourse on an issue of national importance.

Make light of it as it is your stock in trade.

Perhaps, it is way above your intelligence .

udemzyudex:


You're right, I don't discuss with zombies ,who thinks their own opinion supercede others

GavelSlam:


Very well then.

Thanks about informing us about your parents.

udemzyudex:


All this one you're posting is nonsense,I repeat nonsense.

A lot of INEC staff on this forum have said results were transmitted, even the presiding officers said the same thing.
But people like you don't want to kiss the truth.

Jesusloveyou:
you have not answer the question.

was it only pos that transmitted results,
ward,LGA and State collation center did not transmit result to inec server,
did inec chairman received the results from inec server.
or did inec chairman received the 13 pos results from inec server?.

udemzyudex:


You're right, I don't discuss with zombies ,who thinks their own opinion supercede others

udemzyudex:


You're just beating around the bush mister,the same INEC chairman that denied result weren't transmitted even after videos and presiding officers stating that they were transmitted.

Results were transmitted to INEC server and also recorded manually.
You're confusing yourself with the last question mister, please go through it and rephrase it.

mycar:
Even if you show them video of inec man doctoring the result, they will still say that video evidence is not in the constitution.
Other countries are moving onto the 21th century. Our own is 18th century as long as a section of the society is benefiting. How would society be good when you have a lot of disadvantageous people around. You could be a victim of your own creation one day.

Jesusloveyou:
result were transmitted to inec server and also recorded manually.

that is the end of discussion.
hahahahahahahahahaha.

Jesusloveyou:
the jobless aggressive lazy terrorist are the ones consoling themselves with unforeseen result from unknown server.

if the results was transmitted to inec server from poling unit,
where did ward collation center transmitted to?
where did LGA collation center transmitted their collated result to,?
where State collation center transmitted to?
why didn't abuja collation center received State collation center result from inec server. and inec chairman should have announced the final result from inec server

9jatriot:
Now INEC says they have no server that was used for the purpose PDP is alleging, but PDP say na lie.