{"id":97509,"date":"2022-07-30T09:28:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T08:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=97509"},"modified":"2022-07-30T09:28:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T08:28:44","slug":"inec-to-deploy-200000-bvas-for-2023-polls-okoye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/inec-to-deploy-200000-bvas-for-2023-polls-okoye\/","title":{"rendered":"INEC to deploy 200,000 BVAS for 2023 polls &#8211; Okoye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">National Commissioner and Chairman,Voter Education Committee of the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), has disclosed\u00a0 that the electoral umpire would deploy 200,000 Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) in the 2023 polls.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nAddressing journalists in Umuahia, Abia state, Okoye who was in the state to monitor the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) explained that BVAS would be deployed in the 176,000 polling units across the country while the extra 24,000 would be kept as reserve.<\/p>\n<p>He said; 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