The Deputy Director of Information and Communications Technology, INEC, Lawrence Bayode, says the Bimodal Voter Registration System (BVAS) would be deactivated when snatched, hence, cannot be manipulated.
Bayode said this on a television programme on Wednesday to dismiss fears of snatching of ballot boxes and violence by hoodlums as witnessed during past elections.
In his words, “If a BVAS is snatched, we have a system in place that can deactivate that particular BVAS.
“We deactivate it so that whoever snatches the device will not be able to do anything with the device because the device pushes the accreditation data automatically on its own even without the operator pushing a button. When it is idle, it pushes that accreditation data to the back-end.”
Bayode said if hoodlums take the device to other places where they think they can manipulate the data on the device, the polling unit officer will report the incident.
According to him, “If such thing happens, the PO reports and from the back-end, that device is deactivated so that the person who took away that device will not be able to do anything with the device.”
