This represents 1.8 percent of the total number
Cards Readers deployed for the election.
But he noted that technical reports from the more recent elections had shown that the incidence of malfunction in relation to the number of
Card Readers deployed was statistically low.
Not exact matches
According to him, the commission will be
deploying field technical officers who will handle any challenge arising from the malfunctioning of the
card readers.
He said: «For instance, in the last Governorship election in Anambra State,
Card Readers were
deployed to each of the 5,339 Polling Units and Voting Points spread across the 21 Local Government Areas of the State.
He said: «the Commission introduced and
deployed the biometric voter register in the 2011 General Elections and the Smart
Card Reader (SCR) in the 2015 General Elections.
Dazang, who did not give the number of the
card readers to be configured, said that the device to be
deployed would cover the number of polling units and voting points in the state.