The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the Essien Udim State Constituency seat in Akwa Ibom state, Prince Akpabio says the introduction of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) will greatly enhance the credibility of the 2023 polls.
Akpabio also said that the BVAS thuggery and violence will be greatly reduced against what characterised previous elections in the constituency.
Akpabio who stated this on Friday in Essien Udim LGA while inaugurating the AkeminiAwasi Campaign Council to oversee his 2023 House of Assembly campaigns, noted with delight that the introduction of BVAS by INEC is one innovation that has further confirmed that the deployment of technology in our electoral process as well as other aspects of our national life is the surest way towards achieving sustainable electoral reforms and accelerated national development.
The House of Assembly hopeful explained that BVAS will help achieve the verification of the genuineness of the PVCs and the fingerprint or facial authentication of voters during accreditation and also replace the Z-pad for uploading the polling unit results to the INEC Result Viewing Portal (IReV) in real-time on election day, as the device also serves as INEC Voter Enrolment Device (IVED) during voter registration and eliminates the use of incident forms during accreditation on election day.