BREAKING: 2023 Election Results will be collated manually – INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has announced that results of the 2023 General Elections will be collated manually.

This is despite the adoption of electronic transmission of results.

Speaking on the matter, INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman of its Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, disclosed that the Electoral Act explicitly detailed how collation would be done.

He added that the commission will still transmit results to its result-viewing portal.

“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.”

“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.”

“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.

He told Punch; “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.”

He added that if disputes arise from the collated results, the returning officer will use the results transmitted directly from the polling unit and the original of the disputed collated result to determine correctness.

This is unacceptable, the results should be transmitted electronically

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God1000:
This is unacceptable, the results should be transmitted electronically

Comrade, read it again, it makes sense. It is going to be double collation - manual and electronic. Let's praise INEC when they do well.

Unacceptable

U are enemy of Nigeria for referring ObiDient to IPOB..f00l

Naajjii:
Ipob Obidient supporters over to you.

Realwisdomlaw:
Unacceptable

How Manual Election Collation Will Reduce Election Rigging INEC has announced that 2023 election will be collated manually and some people are already rejoicing. It seems they don't understand what manual collation means. Collation means tabulation of results. Manual tabulation means the system wouldn't be hacked. Unlike in Kenya where results are transmitted to a central database, all it required to rig is to hack the database and falsify the result. INEC model is decentralized. BVAS transmit the result electronically to a Collation center where the party agents will compare the electronically transmitted result with the signed manual forms and the results will be collated (tabulated). BVAS is the game changer. With BVAS and manual Collation, INEC has reduced every means to prevent rigging. For those that know, Osun was collated manually. Just imagine what would have happened if the result were transmitted directly to a centralized database without manual Collation. Politicians won't spend money buying votes, but will be recruiting Russians to target the database to falsify it. Most Americans today still believed Russian tampered with their machines to help Trump win.

Collated manually but transmitted electronically!

No wahala.
APC is finished!

That is not acceptable

Realwisdomlaw:
U are enemy of Nigeria for referring ObiDient to IPOB..f00l

Enemy of Nigeria!!! Oh so you are no longer Biafra, you are Nigeria now because you think Obi will be Nigerians president, if he doesn't get it you now remember Nigeria is zoo.

Thanks for clarifying

iSense247:

How Manual Election Collation Will Reduce Election Rigging INEC has announced that 2023 election will be collated manually and some people are already rejoicing. It seems they don't understand what manual collation means. Collation means tabulation of results. Manual tabulation means the system wouldn't be hacked. Unlike in Kenya where results are transmitted to a central database, all it required to rig is to hack the database and falsify the result. INEC model is decentralized. BVAS transmit the result electronically to a Collation center where the party agents will compare the electronically transmitted result with the signed manual forms and the results will be collated (tabulated). BVAS is the game changer. With BVAS and manual Collation, INEC has reduced every means to prevent rigging. For those that know, Osun was collated manually. Just imagine what would have happened if the result were transmitted directly to a centralized database without manual Collation. Politicians won't spend money buying votes, but will be recruiting Russians to target the database to falsify it. Most Americans today still believed Russian tampered with their machines to help Trump win.

Those propagating this news want the election rigged

Don't be stupid, not all Igbos wants Biafra, stop fooling around and be useful to Ur self and Ur family

Naajjii:

Enemy of Nigeria!!! Oh so you are no longer Biafra, you are Nigeria now because you think Obi will be Nigerians president, if he doesn't get it you now remember Nigeria is zoo.

INEC have already clarified this issue. No qualms here.

A fool like u have not been to South East, because if u have, u will know that Igbos are not jobless as u are.. most Igbos are too busy to talk about Biafra. Stop sitting there and be vomiting nonsense. Anu ofia

Naajjii:

Enemy of Nigeria!!! Oh so you are no longer Biafra, you are Nigeria now because you think Obi will be Nigerians president, if he doesn't get it you now remember Nigeria is zoo.

Realwisdomlaw:
A fool like u have not been to South East, because if u have, u will know that Igbos are not jobless as u are.. most Igbos are too busy to talk about Biafra. Stop sitting there and be vomiting nonsense. Anu ofia

Look at you showing your characteristics,always quick to insulting people. Look at your Obidient supporters insulting and threatening people all over.

Please stop sending me message, u don't have sense... U live a life full of hates.. I'm not like u and am not here to banter words with people of Ur kind. Take Ur hate to someone else. Let's see where it will lead u

Naajjii:

Look at you showing your nyamiri characteristics,always quick to insulting people. Look at your Obidient supporters insulting and threatening people all over. Most of the Obidient supporters threatening and insulting people are all Igbos. Other tribes that support Obi don't do that ,that tells something.
Majority of Nyamiri people want Biafra, now Majority have that false hope Obi will win president of Nigeria which can never happen,they forgot about Biafra temporary. If Obi fails to win which is what will likely happen inshaallah , they will return back to Biafra struggle.

Realwisdomlaw:
Please stop sending me message, u don't have sense... U live a life full of hates.. I'm not like u and am not here to banter words with people of Ur kind. Take Ur hate to someone else. Let's see where it will lead u

Haha me and you who is full of hate , look at you insulting me
You and your brothers are all over insulting us, you call us Aboki, Jihadist, terrorists and all that. Now that you are collecting wotowoto from Aboki you getting angry. If anyone should be angry it should be us. Go and check all over nairaland and see attacks on us.

When u display Ur foolishness, people will insult u.like u are doing now, not until u call Ur self aboki that I realized that u are one.. never thought I was chatting with aboki...stop being stupid..no one cares about Ur foolishness

Naajjii:

Haha me and you who is full of hate , look at you insulting me
You and your brothers are all over insulting us, you call us Aboki, Jihadist, terrorists and all that. Now that you are collecting wotowoto from Aboki you getting angry. If anyone should be angry it should be us. Go and check all over nairaland and see attacks on us.

Naajjii:

Look at you showing your nyamiri characteristics,always quick to insulting people. Look at your Obidient supporters insulting and threatening people all over. Most of the Obidient supporters threatening and insulting people are all Igbos. Other tribes that support Obi don't do that ,that tells something.
Majority of Nyamiri people want Biafra, now Majority have that false hope Obi will win president of Nigeria which can never happen,they forgot about Biafra temporary. If Obi fails to win which is what will likely happen inshaallah , they will return back to Biafra struggle.

Was Obi supporting Biafra ever since the struggle started?

Realwisdomlaw:
When u display Ur foolishness, people will insult u.like u are doing now, not until u call Ur self aboki that I realized that u are one.. never thought I was chatting with aboki...stop being stupid..no one cares about Ur foolishness

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Hizzy:

Was Obi supporting Biafra ever since the struggle started?

Everyone from the east supports Biafra Ipob Esn unknown one way or the other.

Naajjii:

Enemy of Nigeria!!! Oh so you are no longer Biafra, you are Nigeria now because you think Obi will be Nigerians president, if he doesn't get it you now remember Nigeria is zoo.

Go and take your drugs

Naajjii:

Everyone from the east supports Biafra Ipob Esn unknown one way or the other.

Can you swear on that