KAD Facts

–Kaduna state is the first sub-national to conduct electronic voting in Nigeria, when it held local government election on May 12, 2018;

-The State Independent Electoral Commission (SIECOM) procured 6,000 Electronic Voting Machine (EVM), even though they were 5,739 voting units in the state;

-The state assembly passed the Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission Bill number 10 of 2012 into law, allowing the use of EVM, on February 6, 2018;

-Prior to the election, EVMs were taken to the 255 wards in the state, for a three-day sensitisation campaign.

-Electoral officers and ad hoc staff were also trained on the use of the machine;

-On election day, voters were accredited manually with their Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs);

-Afterwards, they voted the political parties of their preferred candidates, by pressing the appropriate icon on the EVM screen;

-A receipt or slip is generated after each voting process is completed, showing the choice of the voter;

-Simultaneously, the EVM transmits results to a monitoring room at the commission’s ICT centre. The results are saved on a server;

-At the end of the exercise, the slips or receipts are counted before party agents, security agents and electoral officials, at the polling unit;

-The printed slips or receipts should tally with what is recorded on the server to make the results valid.