The Electoral Machine: How Elections Are Won Before Voting Starts: Mass Reader Edition

BVAS captured 24.5 million fingerprints on February 25, 2023. IReV uploaded 100% of senatorial results from the same devices that "failed" to upload presidential results. That is not a technical failure. That is a choice. The Mass Reader Edition of The Electoral Machine follows Chidinma — 24-year-old NYSC corps member serving as Presiding Officer at Polling Unit 047 in Enugu — through the day her fingerprint machine worked perfectly and her presidential result nonetheless disappeared. It explains in plain language how Nigerian elections are won in the voter register, the collation centre, and the courtroom — not at the polling booth.