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Elections: INEC officials arrive polling units (PHOTOS)
It is election day in Nigeria. The 2023 presidential and National Assembly elections hold today in the West African economic and political giant. Officials of the country’s electoral agency, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) have started arriving at some of the 176,606 polling units scattered across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory that make up Nigeria.
With the arrival of INEC officials are voting materials – sensitive and non-sensitive materials.
Interestingly, many voters are already at polling units in anticipation of accreditation and voting which commence in earnest.
One of the uniqueness of this year’s election is the deployment of the Bimodal Voter Registration Systems (BVAS), the technological system stipulated in the Electoral Act of 2022 which allows the accreditation of voters through biometrics capturing, and uploading of results amongst others.
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