Wilfred Ifogah, the Head of Voter Education, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Bayelsa State has explained that BVAS will promote electoral integrity, among other issues.

According to him: “BVAS is just like your phone but bigger than it. Just like a small tablet. It has a camera and place for fingerprints. It has already been preloaded with the software. It is designed for INEC. When you come with your card, it identifies it just like the former card reader that we used.

“When that is done, we still use the BVAS to authenticate that you are the owner. Your fingerprint is scanned, if it is ok, the BVAS will now report that this person has been accredited then the person moves to the next person who does the normal accreditation. But if your fingerprint fails within that period, they will now use your facial details.

“It takes your photograph and matches it with what is there. If it agrees that you are the one, we will do the accreditation using that method. There will be no incidence form this time. Elections are conducted in the polling units. It is the BVAS that they will use to transmit the result from those units to the INEC viewing portal. It is when you are sending result that a network will be needed. The BVAS works for accreditation without a telecommunication network,” he said.

Speaking on the commission's challenges he said, “the collection is just at the local government headquarters right now. We will devolve to the wards by January, from the 6th to the 15th we will be giving out all the cards at the ward level."