Simply download and install the app from the Google play store or Apple store. The download links are on our web page: https://electionwatch-ng.com. When you open the app, it will show details of the next election that we are monitoring. On the election day, wait until the returning officer of your polling booth has counted and tallied all the total votes. Enter these votes on your app and sent it to us. You also have the option of taking a photo of the returning officer's figures so as to verify the authenticity of the figures you are sending.

Yes, users will be anonymous. No registration is required and we will not collect or save any information that can identify the poster. The only thing the app will take is a temporary unique Id of every phone, when it posts a set of results. This will prevent the same phone from being used to post more than one set of results.

The beta version will be ready before the end of June 2025. The first live test will be the Anambra state governorship election in November 2025.

We will have several levels of authentication in order to ensure that our final figures are highly accurate. The first set of results will be immediate. The figures posted by the users will be updated on our site and visible to the public in real time. But we will tell users that those figures haven't been authenticated to filter out fraud or errors. They will simply give the user an idea of the direction of the voting.

The second set of figures will be machine authenticated. We will use some algorithms to try to detect where fraud may have occurred. For instance if there are 20 submissions from one polling station, and they all match, then it's unlikely that there was fraud or error with these figures.

Another check the machine will do is the location check. The location of the phone will be sent, with every set of figures. If the phone location is not within a few meters of the polling booth, then it the result will be marked as suspect.

A third level of checks will be with the public, themselves. Everyone will be able to check the results of their polling booths on our website: https://electionwatch-ng.com. If they disagree with the results that we have posted on our site, they can click a button on it to indicate so. We will mark that those results for further checks.

The final checks will be manual checks by our staff and volunteers. Wherever there are still uncertain results, after the figures have gone through all the above checks, they will manually check the results against the images of the returning officers final tally.

By the time we go through all these stages of checks we can be pretty confident of the accuracy of our results. And the user will see these results in real time.

Although this app is originally built for the Nigerian election, we are happy to adapt it for use to any other elections that may find it useful.