Addressing The BVAS Black Holes And Election Management
Channel: Plus TV Africa
Date: 2023-03-13

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On the 25th of February 2023, Nigeria held lts 7th in the series of presidential elections since the advent of the 4th republic in 1999. Even before the 4th republic, elections in Nigeria have been a matter of great contention with allegations of rigging of results and other forms of electoral malpractice often leading to violence. In an attempt to curb this, INEC in 2015 first introduced the Permanent Card Reader. It since replaced this with the Z pad, then the Z pad linked with d IREV portal and then now with BVAs all of which it only experimented with in off cycle elections the last of which was the election of Osun state which at the time of the February 25th election was still the subject of litigation. The presidential elections of February 25th also now is the subject of litigation upon which significant issues to be decided in the Osun case will impact, such as what the status of the BVAs machine is in the iaw of evidence. What is clear in all this is the BVAs technology which was deployed to solve the problem of rigging is creating new problems relating to the sanctity of information stored in the machine for the purposes of a legal audit. This is aside the fact  that nothing is known of whether or how  INEC has been updating the software used in this machines to the level necessary to prevent hacking, even INEC has confessed to having experienced glitches in the management of this system. We know of course that in order to avoid the black hole to which the use of technology can descend many of the nations which pioneered its use for elections have moved away from it.

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