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Why has a simple technical task like transmitting election results over the internet become a big deal in Nigeria?

Whereas:

A teenager in a remote village with 10mb can upload her selfie on Facebook and her friends can view it, like it, and share it in real time?

A blogger with his 5k per month server can upload photos and music files for everyone to view and interact with on his blog in real time.

A Nairalander can upload his travel photos to Nairaland in real-time as he tours Africa and the rest of the world.

So, INEC, what is the big deal about imputing results on a device and transmitting it to the public via a dedicated server?

After elections are concluded in a polling unit, the presiding officer simply inputs the digits from the already filled and signed result sheet in front of everyone, and then proceeds to upload a snapshot of the result sheet itself so that the result data imputed can match the figures on the snapshot of the signed result sheet.

This shouldn't be hard to implement. This is not rocket science!!

The donate should be forced to activate ele ironically transmission of results. We are not fools.

Slimani:
So, INEC, what is the big deal about imputing results on a device and transmitting it to the public via a dedicated server?

After elections are concluded in a polling unit, the presiding officer simply inputs the digits from the already filled and signed result sheet in front of everyone, and then proceeds to upload a snapshot of the result sheet itself so that the result data imputed can match the figures on the snapshot of the signed result sheet.

This shouldn't be hard to implement. This is not rocket science!!

See why it is important to study things properly? This system you have suggested exists and INEC used it in the last election.

This system was designed so that after you upload the picture, they serve as backup and should there be any argument during collection, they can refer to it as evidence.

This was used in 2023.

The. E-transmission people are demanding for is that they input the results online as text and allow the system do the calculation in real time as this will greatly reduce the time needed to collate

Slimani:
Why has a simple technical task like transmitting election results over the internet become a big deal in Nigeria?

Whereas:

A teenager in a remote village with 10mb can upload her selfie on Facebook and her friends can view it, like it, and share it in real time?

A blogger with his 5k per month server can upload photos and music files for everyone to view and interact with on his blog in real time.

A Nairalander can upload his travel photos to Nairaland in real-time as he tours Africa and the rest of the world.

So, INEC, what is the big deal about imputing results on a device and transmitting it to the public via a dedicated server?

After elections are concluded in a polling unit, the presiding officer simply inputs the digits from the already filled and signed result sheet in front of everyone, and then proceeds to upload a snapshot of the result sheet itself so that the result data imputed can match the figures on the snapshot of the signed result sheet.

This shouldn't be hard to implement. This is not rocket science!!

So, which law says what you’ve described should not be done? The law has given INEC the power to transmit election result based on their discretion. INEC will make the decision on how to transmit result and not NASS. If you’re talking about online real-time transmission of results, then we have to transit from manual voting to electronic voting. That will be a different conversation entirely.

It is rocket science for riggers and their godfathers.