Chris Ninyo Emmanuel Unanticipated system error was responsible for the glitch that affected upload of the Presidential election result on the INEC Result Viewing (IREV) during the 2023 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission has explained.
General Election, the commission conducted a mock exercise to test the transmission of election results from PUs to the IReV. This was a general test that was not specific to any given election.
“Perhaps had this mock exercise been tailored to specific elections, the hitch that was experienced in uploading Presidential election results would have been detected on time.
“Consequently, a major lesson for the Commission is that in addition to other technical and administrative preconditions, time is critical to the deployment of election technology. Adequate time to develop, test, embed and publicise the technology is essential to its success”.
On the management of election results, the report said: “The scanning of the Polling Unit results for display on the IReV drastically curtailed opportunities to manipulate results between the PUs and the collation centres. This is because the public already had records of the results before collation.
“Furthermore, the use of the Collation Support and Result Verification System (CSRVS), which supports and expedites collation, making for the improved management of election results.
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