A civil rights organisation, YIAGA Africa, on Sunday, said it would deploy the Parallel Vote Tabulation methodology to verify results during the October 10 governorship election in Ondo State.
The Executive Director of YIAGA Africa, Samson Itodo, said in a statement in Abuja that the group would also deploy 646 observers under its “Watching The Vote” project to monitor the election.
He said, “Citizen observers are deployed to randomly sample polling units to collect data on the conduct of elections and official polling unit level results. With the results assembled from the sampled polling units, a citizen observer group can release projected estimates and verify the accuracy of results declared by the election management body. Using this methodology, observer reports are sent via SMS to a central database which enables WTV to analyse and share timely findings on the conduct of the election in near real-time.”