2027 elections: Seven actions INEC must take to build trust in election results, By Samson Itodo
Although the Act makes electronic transmission of polling-unit results to the IREV portal mandatory, the proviso allowing the physical result sheet to override the results transmitted electronically makes the result management process vulnerable to manipulation, and it defeats the entire purpose of electronic transmission.
Every official involved in the results chain – from Presiding Officers and Registration Area Technical Support personnel to Collation Officers and Returning Officers should understand the procedures governing electronic transmission, communication failure, discrepancy resolution, result cancellation, collation and documentation.
One conclusion is particularly important: some of the processes most likely to shape public confidence in election results remain insufficiently visible to the citizens they are designed to reassure.
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