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The obvious questions that the media ought to ask are a) Before the EC jettisoned the existing system, it had told Parliament that it had implemented a “2 BVDs per polling station” policy and therefore had more than 70,000 BVDs in stock.” “Then in 2020, it proceeded to buy a brand-new set of biometric voter registration (BVR) kits with corresponding BVD kits and swore (despite video evidence collected by Bright Simons) that they never used any of the pre-existing devices in the 2020 mass voter registration exercise.
However, IMANI Africa has called the EC’s statement “lies, half-truths, and pure fantasies.” IMANI Africa expressed concerns over the EC’s leadership and the transparency of their actions, stating that there seems to be a pattern of misconduct and misinformation.
Why “10, " not 5, 100, or 1000?” “How have the remaining tens of thousands of devices been disposed of? IMANI Africa has issued a statement expressing skepticism about the Electoral Commission's handling of 10 obsolete biometric verification devices (BVDs) discovered at a recycling plant.
The EC says that only 10 biometric verification devices (BVDs) were “auctioned”..
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