The chairman of the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has declared they will be using no
electronic voting system in 2019 general elections, reports ITRealms.
Addressing participants at the 67th World Congress of the
International Press Institute (IPI) held in Abuja, weekend, Prof. Yakubu said
although there will be no electronic voting, the process is already being engineered
by technology.
"There is no electronic balloting in 2019. In other
words, there will be no electronic voting in the next general election but
technology is already being used in many aspects of the processes,” he
declared, stressing that “Electronic voting should be the ultimate step in the
chain involving five inter-related processes.”
He extended invitation to the international media that
require longer time and logistics to prepare, saying that “you are welcome to
cover our 2019 general elections.”
INEC, he said, believes the forthcoming elections will
further underscore the maturity of our electoral democracy after the globally
acknowledged success of the 2015 general elections.
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