Lagos state Independent Electoral Commission said results of this Saturday local government election in the state may be transmitted electronically.
LASIEC chairperson, Ayotunde Phillips, disclosed this when she spoke on Politics Today, a Channels Television programme, on Friday.
She said that technicians were currently working to fix difficulties being experienced by the agency’s website, assuring that if the problem persists, the use of Cloud storage — a computer data storage in which digital data can be stored in logical pools — will ensure easy access of the results.
According to the LASIEC chief, voters with either temporary voter cards or permanent voters cards are eligible to vote.
She said, “We are still battling the uploading aspect of our website, which is giving us problem but I’m sure with the use of the cloud that we’ve paid for because of the card readers, something will be done, and they will be able to access whatever results are able to be stored on the cloud tomorrow (today).
“Apart from the website, all the results will go into a cloud and we have paid. We have paid for use of that cloud for one year. I’m sure we will find a way of allowing access to that information, our technicians will just have to work on it.
“We are working on it, and we are going to work on it all night, and we hope by tomorrow everything will be alright.”
On security, she said that the agency understood the delicate security situation in the state, but noted that the state Commissioner of Police had assured that an additional 35, 000 personnel have been deployed to ensure adequate security on the election day.
She said, “We have work hand in hand for over a month now with the security agencies, the police and the civil defense corps, who are the frontliners, the army, navy, the air force, and the neigbourhood watch and the DSS.
“We are very aware of the security situation and just this evening I was informed by the commissioner of police that he has deployed an additional 35, 000 policemen into Lagos tomorrow to help oversee the election and ensure that peace is kept.”