BEVERLY HILLS, April 12, (THEWILL) –Â The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has stated that there will be no e-voting in 2019.
Prof. Yakubu said this in Abuja at the end of a three-day International Conference of Election Management Bodies (EMBs) in West and Southern African countries in Abuja, themed ‘Opportunities and Challenges in the Use of Technology: Experiences from West and Southern Africa.’
The INEC chairman who is also the President, ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions (ECONEC), however, said technology will be deployed in the collation and transmission of elections results.
“The brainstorming was to look at the adoption of technology in all the areas of electoral process and how to provide secure platform for the transmission of election results without hindrance.
“We are to deploy technology within our various legal frameworks within the regions. Election is not just about technology, it is about the confidence of the people in the electoral process.”
He said with the efforts being made to improve the electoral process, elections were going beyond the capacity of electoral commission to manipulate.
Prof. Yakubu reiterated his position that the deployment of technology in the conduct of elections had come to stay adding that the essence of the conference was to enable mutually beneficial discussions and strategy and share experience.
