PVT leverages statistics and technology for observation of voting, countinYiaga Africa’s Watching The Vote (WTV) has said it will use an advanced election observation methodology called Parallel Vote Tabulation (PVT) for the Ekiti State governorship election ongoing g and tallying of results.

Citizen observers are deployed to randomly sample polling units, and collect data on the conduct of elections and official polling unit results. With the results assembled from the sampled polling units, a citizen observer group can release projected estimates and verify the accuracy of results declared by the election management body.

Using this methodology, observer reports are sent via SMS to a central database, which enables WTV to analyse and share timely findings on the conduct of the election in near real-time.

PVT allows Yiaga Africa’s WTV to present an accurate and comprehensive assessment of election day processes, such as whether election officials comply with guidelines for the conduct of polls, the presence of security agents, the presence and behaviour of party agents, the secrecy of the ballot and transparency of the counting process.