Leaked Memo Reveals INEC Directed RECs to Upload Voter Data to Server

Ololade Adeyanju/

A leaked internal memo of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has revealed a given directive that the Commission should transmit voter accreditation data during the 2019 presidential elections from smart card readers to a server.

The memo, dated March 25, 2019, was posted on Twitter today by Reno Omokri, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan.

The memo which allegedly originated from the office of the secretary to the commission, Mrs Rose Oriaran-Anthony, directed INEC resident electoral commissioners to provide feedback on challenges experienced during the elections, including failure to transmit voter accreditation data to a server.

The memo reads: “The commission has observed, with deep concerns, the number of smart card readers that do not have data of accredited voters in the just concluded presidential/NASS elections nationwide.

“The total number of SCRs without accreditation data is 4,786 nationwide, which stands at about 4 per cent of the total SCRs deployed for that election. Attached is the chart, showing the PUs not uploaded to the SCR accreditation backend, for each of the states.”

The memo further instructed the RECs to direct their respective heads of department (ICT) to download the list of the polling units without accreditation data for their states from a provided web link.

It adds: “You are please requested to liaise with your HOD election operations and the electoral officers to provide comments beside each PU, stating why there are no accreditation data. The comments should reflect what happened to the SCR or the results of the PU: covering cases where election did not hold, cancellation of PU result, stolen or destroyed SCRs, etc. This should be submitted in both soft and hard copies, latest by Thursday, 28th May, 2019.”

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