The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will deploy electronic voting machines to all polling units, National Commissioner, and Chairman, Information and Voters Education, Festus Okoye, has said.
Okoye disclosed this at a workshop for staff of the Commission’s Voters Education and Publicity Department, with support from the International Foundation for Electoral System, held in Lokoja.
He said subsequent elections will be technology-driven, adding that the electronic voting machines will be aligned to the existing devices and means that will raise the integrity and transparency of the electoral process.
Okoye said “with the new method, registered voters must still physically go out to the polling units to exercise their franchise. The enhanced technology process does not provide for people voting from the comfort of their homes.”
