Election Day Watch follows what happens at polling units through accredited observers, and tracks the Form EC8A result sheets INEC uploads to the IReV portal for the current Nigerian election. Vote figures are extracted from scanned result sheets using optical character recognition and are not independently verified.
Accredited observers file structured checklists through the day: arrival and setup, opening, voting, sorting and counting, and collation. The board below summarises polling-unit setup and materials from arrival reports.
Coverage is limited to sheets uploaded to IReV. Not every polling unit will have a result uploaded at any given time, and figures may change as more sheets are processed or OCR is corrected.
INEC uploads scanned Form EC8A sheets (polling-unit result sheets) to the IReV portal as the election concludes.
EveryVotes downloads each uploaded sheet and extracts the vote tallies using AI-assisted OCR.
Extracted figures are compared against accreditation data. Anomalies are flagged, never corrected.
Totals are aggregated across every polling unit whose sheet has been uploaded and parsed.