Nigeria, Oct. 30 -- Technology and innovation are playing an important role in the ongoing transformation of Nigeria's electoral processes.

Before the current electoral reform exercise began in 2011, the electoral commission, INEC, was one of the least trusted public institutions in the country.

INEC has since increasingly deployed innovation and technology to improve its processes and gain public confidence.

One of these processes is voter registration, an exercise it often carries out ahead of every general election.

But some political actors are said to be up in arms against the use of one of the most recent technologies being deployed for the 2023 general elections, the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS).

Instead, they are...