The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) introduced a portal dedicated to for result viewing. Nigerians can view results from polling units in real-time on election days via the INEC Result Viewing (IRV) portal. This is part of the electoral umpire’s efforts to improve the electoral system in Nigeria with use of technologies.
The commission introduced this portal on August 6 and was used in the Nasarawa central constituency bye-election. INEC says it has increased the viewing capacity of the portal to 2 million.
The introduction of a new technology Z-pad at the August 8 Nasarawa central constituency bye-election as a test-run but faced challenges. The commission, however, explained that tablet cameras would only be used to take photos of the polling unit EC8A result sheets for the Saturday’s election.
The electoral umpire had last week in Benin, the Edo State capital, said it would deploy a new technology called Z-pad, which will only serve as biometric accreditation using the photographs of voter’s fingerprints.
The real-time posting of the election results, as stated by INEC, simply entails posting and uploading photographs of the EC8A/EC8A(VP), EC60, 40H forms results in PDF versions from polling units of a particular election held in a given state.
For instance, if it were the general elections, the IVR would contain the results coming from all the 119,973 polling units and 57,000 voting points across the country. The same would happen for other off-circle elections and subsequent bye-elections that would be conducted by INEC.
Nigerian can visit the portal and create an account. You would need to input your name, a valid phone number, valid email and enter a password. As soon you receive a activation code enter and continue.
