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The PDP has concluded plans to discredit INEC processes and procedures in the coming days. The purpose of this thread is to explain how the INEC process works.📣📣👇👇👇👇📣📣 Retweet! so others will be aware.

They already started with article publications and tweets to discredit the election. Their plan is to fool some of the international agencies into buying into their agenda of claiming that the election is rigged. It doesn't have to be true. They just need to create the perception

This thread will explain the PVC, card readers and the process of transmitting elections results to the INEC headquarters so that it will be clear to all how INEC has improved our election.

We will start with your PVC
Use of data capture and voters card.

The PVC is comparable to bank cards. The information here is based on the technical information gathered about the similar technologies the bank cards architecture is built on.

The PVC like the bank card has a small microchip that store information to protect against unauthorized use. Security features include fingerprint technology. This makes stolen or cloned PVC useless unless all the officials & party agents at the PU connive to allow it.

Each time a PVC is used, the card reader generates a unique transaction code that makes it impossible for that card to be used for voting again. Secondly, the fingerprint technology matches the user to their card so someone else will be unable to use the card. Protects data.

The protection comes from the fact that the data on chip cards continuously changes making it very difficult to steal data. An authorized person would have to open up the tiny chips in the card to extract the data that it holds. Imagine doing this for millions of cards.

On election day, each polling units has a card reader (or more than 1) which if hacked into is useless because it is only loaded with data from one polling unit. It also means there will be electronic record of that unit, Number of voters, PVC, number that actually voted

What the electronic record does is to make sure results can be crosschecked if needed. So it is impossible for the government to write results like OBJ was accustomed to.

Is it possible to hack the entire INEC system? They may try, but I doubt they will succeed. It is the reason we must be wary of the PDP which is the only party with a motive to do so. They can't use the security forces like they used to so they might try this method

but I believe the polling unit results will thwart all their efforts at rigging this election. So after you voted, make sure to witness the counting of the result. Take a picture and keep for your record.

Let us discuss how the result transmission works
PDP will attempt to misinform the public about election results in places where they are losing by claiming that the results have been tampered with. Well, each polling unit results will still be kept so this can be easily verified

The PDP is already propagandizing fake news about rigging plans of APC. Let's disclose the INEC process of collating result to debunk their disinformation.

At each polling unit, the presiding officer will count & announce d results of the unit for all levels of elective offices.

The PU results will then be transmitted to the RA collection officers at the ward level. At this level, the officer will announce the result of councilorship elections and declare the winner.

The RA collation officer will then transfer the remainder of the results to the LGA collation officer. The LGA CO will then collate the previously announced results from each ward to declare the winner of the Local government election

State assembly
The ward CO will collate the results and send to the state Constituency Returning Officer (CRO) or the LGA CO. Who it is sent to depend on geographical area cover so the party need to keep an eye out.

All the results are sent to the CRO who collates the results and announce the winners of the state assembly and declare winners

President - The registration area or Ward CO will submit ward results to the LGA collation officer. The LGA CO will then collate the result from all the wards and send to State CO. The state CO will collate and tally all the LGA result.

This LGA result summary is then submitted to the Chief Electoral Commissioner (INEC chairperson). INEC Chairman will then collate all the state results. Announce the results and declare winners as the president-elect of Nigeria

There are check and balances at every level of collation. It is very difficult to change ward results. The only way the APC can rig the results announced to be different from those at the wards, LGA etc is for Atiku to connive with PMB to give the election away to PMB.

With this information, you can conclude that it will be very hard for the government to rig the election. The PDP want you to believe otherwise. They have already started publishing articles in the newspapers and tweeting information with the goal of discrediting INEC.

Even one of their own who might not be in on the plan couldn't take the lies. He released a long thread to defend INEC.

This is what he wrote in defense of INEC. He is a staunch supporter of Atiku.

https://twitter.com/AMADICHIMA/status/1094187701400756224

If all else fail, the PDP may resort to hacking into a few card readers to deactivate them so that they won't work. They are also planning to use security officers to stage harassment that will be recorded for SM. The PDP will then use that to claim election irregularities.

Now that you understand what is going on, refer to this tweet every time you see any of their fake news in the coming days. May we have a peaceful election. Please retweet for others to be aware of the PDP plan.

Be expecting disinformation and misinformation from the usual MCN's throughout the week. I won't mention names but you already know them. I learnt one big launderer is involved.

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