{"id":130727,"date":"2024-09-11T23:05:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T22:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/edo-guber-poll-bvas-used-for-mock-accreditation-training-wont-be-used-for-election-yakubu"},"modified":"2024-09-12T00:32:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T23:32:27","slug":"edo-guber-poll-bvas-used-for-mock-accreditation-training-wont-be-used-for-election-yakubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/edo-guber-poll-bvas-used-for-mock-accreditation-training-wont-be-used-for-election-yakubu","title":{"rendered":"Edo Guber Poll: BVAS used for mock accreditation, training won\u2019t be used for election \u2013 Yakubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has assured that the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System, BVAS machines used for the mock accreditation and the training of officials will not be used on Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>INEC boss, Mahmood Yakubu gave the assurance on Wednesday during a meeting with the stakeholders at the Victor Uwaifo Creative Hub, Benin City ahead of the governorship election slated for September 21, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are deploying the BVAS machines for voter accreditation at polling units and for the upload of results to the INEC Result Viewing (IReV) portal,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reports that the Commission conducted mock accreditation in 12 polling units across six LGAs in the three senatorial districts of the state, using the BVAS.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose was to test-run the deployment of technology to safeguard the credibility of the election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am glad to report that the mock was successful and the result can be viewed on the IReV portal,\u201d Yakubu added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut let me also quickly add that the machines used for the mock accreditation and the training of officials will not be used on Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have sufficient machines for the election which have been configured for voter accreditation and the upload of result distinct from those used for mock accreditation and training.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has assured that the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System, BVAS machines used for the mock accreditation and the training of officials will not be used on Election Day. INEC boss, Mahmood Yakubu gave the assurance on Wednesday during a meeting with the stakeholders at the Victor Uwaifo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":130726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,2660],"tags":[12450,254,433],"class_list":["post-130727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-to-homepage","tag-edo-guber-poll","tag-nigeria","tag-yakubu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Edo Guber Poll: BVAS used for mock accreditation, training won\u2019t be used for election \u2013 Yakubu - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Independent National 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