If Goodluck could postpone a general election for no genuine reason, inec should
do same if they are not ready.
Reconfiguring without backing up the data renders the whole process null and void!!!!

ImoleNaija:
Once the court declares the winner, I expect no one to keep disturbing the threads with cries o.

will you keep quiet evil supporter

All the wailing will end one day

Must they wipe the machine first? Even Nokia 3310 phone could save those data collated in those polling units and many more. Na so the memeory small reach

AquaPetals:
INEC has a right to the BVAS.
I pray the courts to postpone LP inspection till after the Gubernatorial.
INEC has an election to conduct in a matter of days. Any act preventing them from this is tantamount to an electoral malpractice.

How can they conduct another election when the one already conducted is shrouded in fraud?

PecE2Make:
will you keep quiet evil supporter

Take heart, you will get better soon.

Luckysbab:


The data has been backed up, for God's sake. The machines are what needs to be reconfigured, not the data.

Why una just like Nzogbu zogbu like this, without thinking things through.

Remember the last time they denied having a server, what stops them from "destroying" the data they have back end while doing the reconfiguration? And now dismiss any evidence LP/PDP brought against them to the tribunal?

AquaPetals:
INEC has a right to the BVAS.
I pray the courts to postpone LP inspection till after the Gubernatorial.
INEC has an election to conduct in a matter of days. Any act preventing them from this is tantamount to an electoral malpractice.

You sound stupid...I needed to remind you Incase you forgot

Danburuwa:


The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) decision to approach the Court of Appeal in Abuja, for an order varying the permission the court had previously granted the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (LP) to inspect materials used by the commission in the conduct of the February 25 presidential election has elicited questions about the integrity of the recently held poll.

INEC said the request was predicated on the need to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) used in the presidential election before deploying them for the March 11 governorship and state Houses of Assembly polls.

However, some IT experts who didn’t want their names in print were unanimous that granting the order would allow the electoral body to tamper with the evidence and compromise the pending litigations on the controversial poll and further worsen the credibility of the entire process.

The IT experts believe that INEC does not need to reconfigure the BVAS ahead of the gubernatorial and the states’ houses of assembly polls.

The presidential candidates of PDP, Atiku Abubakar, and LP, Peter Obi, had in their challenge of the outcome of the presidential election, recently, obtained the order of the court to inspect materials used in the conduct of the poll, including the BVAS.

INEC had declared candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, winner of the presidential election, which was marred by technical challenges.

The controversial poll has been rejected by the two leading opposition parties and had been criticised by international observers and civil society organisations.

Tinubu, a former Lagos State governor, was said to have polled a total of 8,794,726 votes to defeat his closest rival and presidential candidate of PDP, Atiku, who scored 6,984,520 votes, and Peter Obi of LP, who polled 6,101,533 votes, in an election that INEC failed to ensure instantaneous transmission of results to its IReV at the conclusion of voting at polling units as originally planned for the 2023 general election.

Both Tinubu and Atiku won 12 states each, while Obi won 11 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

The Court of Appeal presided by Justice Joseph Ikyegh had last Friday, while delivering ruling in two separate applications, permitted Atiku and Obi to inspect the said materials, which they intended to use in proving their allegations of non-compliance and rigging of the poll.

The appellate court, ruling in an ex parte application, permitted Atiku and Obi to inspect, “All the electoral materials used in the conduct of the election for the office of the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria held on February 25, 2023.”

The court also permitted Atiku and Obi to do electronic scanning and/or make photocopies of Voter’s Registration and ballot papers used in the presidential election.

In addition, both Atiku and Obi were by the order permitted to, “Carryout digital forensic inspection of BVAS machines used for the conduct of the February 25” presidential election.

However, INEC, in a fresh application, which THISDAY learnt was filed over the weekend, asked the appellate court to vary the order so as to allow the electoral umpire reconfigure the BVAS for use in the March 11 governorship and Houses of Assembly elections.

According to a source in INEC, the application became necessary following an order restraining the commission from tampering with the information embedded in the BVAS machines until due inspection was conducted and Certified True Copies (CTC) issued to the applicants.

The source added that INEC needed sufficient time to reconfigure the BVAS to be used during this Saturday’s poll holding in the 36 states of the federation, excluding the FCT.

According to the source, considering the number of BVAS machines required to conduct the election across the states, INEC needs to reconfigure the BVAS used for the February 25 elections before deploying them to the various polling units.

The source said the technical team of the commission had to be deployed on time to start the reconfiguration of the devices, which had to be done one by one.

The source maintained that not varying the order could result to postponement of the March 11 elections.

Source- https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2023/03/07/inecs-application-to-court-to-reconfigure-bvas-raises-integrity-questions/

If the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) objects used during the contestable presidential election are still in the custody of the INEC, the purpose of litigation in court is defeated.

The presidential election data can be saved by creating a new file and stored in the BIvas.While another space can be provided for the storage of data for the governorship election.

thebestprice:
I see the INEC chairman committing suicide or going to jail ..

It's what I see in the spirit realms

Any option he gets is hid business. His a tons were criminal. He had no honour.

Livelystone01:

When you comment on sport threads, you sound intelligent but alas, I've seen through your veil.


A smart person should know that all INEC needs to do is to upload everything it has to their back end server without losing any information and do whatever they want.

Do you want INEC to use incident forms to conduct the gubernatorial election? Don't you know that it will lead to massive rigging to the extent that no incumbent would lose?

Whatever is uploaded to cloud stays there, some of you guys are so emotional to see beyond your noses.

Stop sounding smart when you are not.
Even an amateur IT professional having access to those BIVAS can completely corupt all files embedded therein, talkless of gurus.

Luckysbab:


So a regular professor is who you consider an authority now?

Una no just get sense, seeking validation any and every way.

What do you know about IT forensic process? Data collected is not issue but chain of custody. It is very surprising that BVAS and IREV used in this contested election have not been confiscated.

AquaPetals:
INEC has a right to the BVAS.
I pray the courts to postpone LP inspection till after the Gubernatorial.
INEC has an election to conduct in a matter of days. Any act preventing them from this is tantamount to an electoral malpractice.

You see your life. May men rig your body just like APC in collaboration with INEC rigged the presidential election.

urose93:


Stop sounding smart when you are not.
Even an amateur IT professional having access to those BIVAS can completely corupt all files embedded therein, talkless of gurus.

Did you hear INEC talk about uploading what's there or you just decided to expose your ignorance?

How can what's being uploaded touched when you can download it immediately?

No problem. They should permit them to reconfigure it under these conditions;

1. That the presidential election will be canceled and another election scheduled.

2. That the results will only be accepted if transmitted in real time.

3. That the result in the server will be available to the public to view at real time.

4. That there electorates will not be intimidated in any way.

5. That the party agents will be allowed to take the screenshots of the result and make it public.

6. That every polling units will have enough security personnel attached to it. And if there is any security breach, the security personnel will be held accountable.

7. A number should be made available to report incident of vote buying and selling.

8. That party agents should allowed to make video coverage of all that is happening in their polling units.

INEC IS NOW IN SHAMBLES THAT IS A BIG SLAP ON OUR FACES,AN INDEPENDENT BODY THAT HAS BEEN COMPROMISED,BRIBED,NOW A POLITICAL INSTITUTION HAS BECOME A LAUGHING STOCK IN THE PAST FEW DAYS

UnknownT:
So without this Court of Appeals ruling, INEC would have gone ahead to reconfigure the BVAS record? Don't we as a country have a need to keep the record of the election? Presidential election result oh not even councillorship election result. If LP/PDP hadn't got that order and went to tribunal first, that's how INEC would have deleted the evidence and will now come to the tribunal to say that it never existed? Same way INEC paid some influencers in 2019 to trend "No Server, Atiku is not coming" hashtags? They better shift the next election by 2 weeks so the opposition can harvest all the needed data they want from the machines

*face-palm* why are you people this dull? They've mentioned that they'll backup all the bvas. Omo I don't tire for una matter

Oga if u don't know anything about IT or server handling operation and programming u just shut up than to come here and claim rubbish, from a 20+ years experience I'm telling u about servers, programming, deploying and all it mode of operation, if such request from inec is allowed even the data stored up in the cloud server can be tempered too, there is a system called Blackbox that records every live operation of data on the server both in real time and backend offline, this system do not need to be tempered before anything as there are many algorithm attached to it from the cloud that keeps all activities intact as evidence from the onset.

Now let me break it down for you to understand.

Each algorithm from the server reads what we call residue in the Blackbox this residue stores the actual data in real time and feed back to the cloud server it also cover up the backend.

Now if allowed for a reconfiguration, the Blackbox operation will be first put to stop not to monitor and record the action action taken for the reconfiguration giving the room to tamper the cloud server handlings and filtering the already stored algorithm on the Blackbox manipulating what we call a flash point, which will lead to non recoverable of actual data as stored.

Now there are Blackbox that doesn't allow manipulation in any mean due to the advanced algorithm protocol challenges on each channel should in case if such Blackbox is what is been used "obviously I know inec won't go for such cause they already planned the rigging ahead of time" then they will have the time to do a physical replacement of it giving another room to damage the actual box physically and replacing with the manipulated one then create a restore point and connect it back to the same cloud using randomly generated IPs this will result to manipulated logs at the end and there aim will be achieved.

Listen, there is nothing wrong with the Bvas no reconfiguration is required this is just a tactics to wipe out or corrupt existing data. Normally there should be a two cloud servers giving room specifically for presidential and governorship elections it should be stored in one server but still can be monitored with one Blackbox ⚫️.

Having explained this to u, now u should clearly know that this move by inec is lies and should never be accepted until all data stored is being extracted if it called for postponing of the election so be it! Unless u are a supporter of APC and rigging.

Livelystone01:

When you comment on sport threads, you sound intelligent but alas, I've seen through your veil.


A smart person should know that all INEC needs to do is to upload everything it has to their back end server without losing any information and do whatever they want.

Do you want INEC to use incident forms to conduct the gubernatorial election? Don't you know that it will lead to massive rigging to the extent that no incumbent would lose?

Whatever is uploaded to cloud stays there, some of you guys are so emotional to see beyond your noses.

Padipadi:
Let me tell you all the truth.
As much as there's doubt over the integrity of INEC, all Nigerians must understand that the technology we use is not on same level as what's used in developed countries. It's even possible our INEC budget was higher than that of countries that conducted elections and there was no suspicion of foul play from all parties or the masses.
One on one, you all know that Nigeria lacked stable power supply. The network we use for phone calls, subscriptions or e-banking is not same level as what a country of the age and resources of Nigeria should have.
I laughed within me when INEC said they now v BIVAS. Of what use is technology when what you need to power and make it function smoothly is not available.
Don't be surprised when you see people borrowing INEC power bank or gen to power some equipments.
What am saying is we are at an all time low.
Instead of successive govts to be doing well, every Tom Dick and Harry ll come in after election and eat his/her own.
One major problem, reduction in cost of governance hasn't been solved. Buhariii won my heart with it in 2015 but I later realised the guy na scam. He even ate and allowed others to eat.
What I expect from youth is the real movement of making Nigeria work. Not Obidient, not Take It Back, not Revolution, not ENDSARS.
It's two things
1. A call on senate in national assembly and reps that all cost of governance, salary and emoluments should be slashed to civil servant ratio while the 1999 constitution is reviewed.

2. A determination to vote out candidates based on personal convictions. A lot voting don't v genuine info about who they are voting.

We can hold them for real by the scrotum if we demand for reduction in allowances of public service and elected personnel. This ll make politics less attractive.
My opinion.

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Padipadi:
Let me tell you all the truth.
As much as there's doubt over the integrity of INEC, all Nigerians must understand that the technology we use is not on same level as what's used in developed countries. It's even possible our INEC budget was higher than that of countries that conducted elections and there was no suspicion of foul play from all parties or the masses.
One on one, you all know that Nigeria lacked stable power supply. The network we use for phone calls, subscriptions or e-banking is not same level as what a country of the age and resources of Nigeria should have.
I laughed within me when INEC said they now v BIVAS. Of what use is technology when what you need to power and make it function smoothly is not available.
Don't be surprised when you see people borrowing INEC power bank or gen to power some equipments.
What am saying is we are at an all time low.
Instead of successive govts to be doing well, every Tom Dick and Harry ll come in after election and eat his/her own.
One major problem, reduction in cost of governance hasn't been solved. Buhariii won my heart with it in 2015 but I later realised the guy na scam. He even ate and allowed others to eat.
What I expect from youth is the real movement of making Nigeria work. Not Obidient, not Take It Back, not Revolution, not ENDSARS.
It's two things
1. A call on senate in national assembly and reps that all cost of governance, salary and emoluments should be slashed to civil servant ratio while the 1999 constitution is reviewed.

2. A determination to vote out candidates based on personal convictions. A lot voting don't v genuine info about who they are voting.

We can hold them for real by the scrotum if we demand for reduction in allowances of public service and elected personnel. This ll make politics less attractive.
My opinion.

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Padipadi:
Let me tell you all the truth.
As much as there's doubt over the integrity of INEC, all Nigerians must understand that the technology we use is not on same level as what's used in developed countries. It's even possible our INEC budget was higher than that of countries that conducted elections and there was no suspicion of foul play from all parties or the masses.
One on one, you all know that Nigeria lacked stable power supply. The network we use for phone calls, subscriptions or e-banking is not same level as what a country of the age and resources of Nigeria should have.
I laughed within me when INEC said they now v BIVAS. Of what use is technology when what you need to power and make it function smoothly is not available.
Don't be surprised when you see people borrowing INEC power bank or gen to power some equipments.
What am saying is we are at an all time low.
Instead of successive govts to be doing well, every Tom Dick and Harry ll come in after election and eat his/her own.
One major problem, reduction in cost of governance hasn't been solved. Buhariii won my heart with it in 2015 but I later realised the guy na scam. He even ate and allowed others to eat.
What I expect from youth is the real movement of making Nigeria work. Not Obidient, not Take It Back, not Revolution, not ENDSARS.
It's two things
1. A call on senate in national assembly and reps that all cost of governance, salary and emoluments should be slashed to civil servant ratio while the 1999 constitution is reviewed.

2. A determination to vote out candidates based on personal convictions. A lot voting don't v genuine info about who they are voting.

We can hold them for real by the scrotum if we demand for reduction in allowances of public service and elected personnel. This ll make politics less attractive.
My opinion.

Buhariii won my heart with it in 2015...


wtf. This is a proof that most Nigerians only learn from direct suffering rather than history, comprehensive comparison or constructive reasoning.

Lotuslove:
INEC wants to play hanky panky with the uploads


Nigerians are truly suffering in this hard times.. this is so heartbreaking.. may God touch the heart of a good samaritan to help you dear

You have said this same thing in several places on same begging thread, your scam colleague I would guess.

YoungBlackRico:
*face-palm* why are you people this dull? They've mentioned that they'll backup all the bvas. Omo I don't tire for una matter

Have INEC said something and do it? So that when tribunal starts now and they ask then to bring the back up they will change mouth like they did the last time?