The Chairperson of the National Elections Commission, (NEC), at the head of a 3-member delegation, is in Abuja, Nigeria for a 4-day working visit at the Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria (INEC), to further dialogue on support for Biometric Voter Technology during the 2023 General Elections in Liberia.
A statement from NEC Thursday said the visit to INEC, Nigeria, is in pursuant of the Regional ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions (ECONEC) to further discuss electoral resource sharing within the sub-region.
The NEC’s statement issued on July 29, 2021 said other members of the delegation are the Chairperson for the 2023 general elections, Commissioner Floyd Oxly Sayor, and the Director of Information Technology (IT), James Dogbey.
The NEC statement said the proposed pilot project for possible use of Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) by the Liberian Elections Management Body (EMB) and the availability and type of Biometric Technology in Nigeria will also form part of the working visit with authorities of INEC, Nigeria.