The mock accreditation conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ahead of the 2023 general elections using the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machine has been described as very efficient.
Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this when he visited some polling units in Abuja on Saturday and observed that the mock accreditation was impressive.
The INEC chairman who went around Abuja Area Council said he is optimistic about the performance of the BVAS and that the goal of INEC during the ongoing mock accreditation is to ensure the machines are working optimally before the general elections.
“What we intend to achieve is to further test the integrity of the machines we are going to deploy on election day. We are satisfied with the test carried out in our office but we needed the machines in the field ahead of the election bearing in mind that this is the first time we are deploying the machines nationwide.
“We have identified 436 polling units nationwide on the equality of states of the federation based on two local government areas per senatorial district and four polling units per local government. In FCT, four polling units were selected.
“So far, so good, voters have been verified using their PVCs and authenticated using their fingerprints or facial based on which they will be given the ballot paper on election day after successful accreditation.
“In the polling units visited so far, no report of failure. The machines performed optimally and this is the report we are getting nationwide,” Yakubu said.
He noted that the Commission will make spare machines available on Election Day in case of any malfunction so that we can respond immediately and fix the machines.
During mock accreditation, early voters who came for the exercise spent less than two minutes completing the process.
Polling unit officers further said that the BVAS machine works faster with facial capturing than finger capturing.
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