The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) to be deployed for the forthcoming general election is capable of reading faces with heavy makeup.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Mr Festus Okoye, INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman of Information and Voter Education Committee made the disclosure on Thursday.
“We have improved on the technology of the BVAS,” Okoye said on a Channels TV programme.
He went further to say: “In almost all the places where I observed and where National Commissioners observed [during the mock accreditation carried out by the Commission], the voters did not need to use methylated spirits.
“The BVAS is able to read their fingerprints. The BVAS is also able to read the facials of men and women with heavy makeup because it is able to read the contours of their faces.
“The BVAS is able to read all the facial makeup of every individual. So, we are slightly more comfortable than we were before with the performance of the BVAS”.
However, the INEC National Commissioner advised that voters should wear moderate makeup to the polling unit on election day.