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INEC reveals why their efforts were jeopardized in the presidential election

INEC reveals why their efforts were jeopardized in the presidential election

INEC reveals why their efforts were jeopardized in the presidential election

More facts have emerged about the failure of the Independent National Electoral Commission to upload the results of the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections on its portal.

Sunday PUNCH gathered that a code error from the server application frustrated the upload process.

However, desperate efforts to address the glitch by INEC’s team of Information Technology experts failed.

The development sparked nationwide anger and allegations of rigging and electoral manipulation against the electoral body by political parties and many Nigerians.

Checks by our correspondent on Saturday revealed that results from 168,711 out of the 176,846 polling units had so far been uploaded on the INEC portal, representing 95 per cent of the results

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Speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the issue, the source said, “The technical glitch that hampered the transmission of the presidential result was a code error that kept crashing the server, which kept prompting a HTTP 500 error. This sort of error originated from within the application.” Continue reading