Why INEC Was Unable To Transmit Election Results Electronically – Computer Society

I’m not even saying it’s a cyber attack, but it takes a certain knowledge of cyber security before you also be able to say that the problem you are facing is even cyber or not.

“Yes, it could be, it could also be a stress-based attack or like the chairman mentioned that the system was overwhelmed. Why would you be saying that your system was overwhelmed? You know your population. You know the polling units that you have. You have an idea of people that would want to be transmitting results at a point in time. You know you have all these. How well have they been able to prepare?

“Yes; they told us they were going to do trial elections, which they did. Who are the people involved in these trial elections?

“Did they take samples from the people that actually served as their polling officers or SDOs? Did they take samples from them? If they had used their staff, their staff wouldn’t have been the people that would conduct the election.

“So most of the problems they have, they are really operational. The technology they have adopted, I think that idea is good.”

Sodiya added that even with the best technology, there may still be problems if the “operational perspective” is not properly handled.