The development formed part of observations made by election monitors and civil society organisations monitoring the conduct of the election.
Several elderly voters were reportedly forced to wash their faces repeatedly after the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) failed to recognise and authenticate them during the Ekiti State governorship election, leading to delays and disenfranchisement in some polling units across the state.
The development formed part of observations made by election monitors and civil society organisations monitoring the conduct of the election.
Observers reported that the BVAS machines particularly struggled to authenticate elderly voters using facial recognition technology, causing frustration among voters and delays in the accreditation and voting process.
In many polling units, elderly voters were seen repeatedly washing their faces in attempts to enable the BVAS capture their facial details successfully after several failed authentication attempts.
