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Nigeria Election Results Portal # OpenBallot Nigeria > **Transparent. Verifiable. Irreversible.** > Nigeria's first open, multi-source, document-first election results platform - powered by Form EC8A, built by civil society, accountable to the public. --- --- ## Table of Contents 1. What is OpenBallot Nigeria? 2. The Problem We Are Solving 3. How It Works 4. Why OpenBallot Is Different 5. Platform Architecture 6. The EC8A Pipeline 7. Multi-Source Verification Engine 8. Discrepancy Detection & Escalation 9. The Audit Trail - Level C 10. Election Types Supported 11. Interactive Results Map 12. Agent & Observer Onboarding 13. Multi-Language Support 14. Public API & Media Embed 15. Historical Data Layer 16. Tech Stack 17. Data Model Overview 18. Security Architecture 19. Governance 20. Funding & Partners 21. Roadmap 22. Contributing 23. License --- ## What is OpenBallot Nigeria? **OpenBallot Nigeria** is an open-source, civic technology platform that enables the real-time collection, verification, and public display of Nigerian election results - directly from Form EC8A, the legally binding result sheet signed by the Presiding Officer and all party agents at every polling unit. It is an independent, non-partisan civic body and registered non-governmental organisation - open to all INEC-registered political parties and accredited election observers, and free for any citizen to access. OpenBallot does not compete with INEC. It runs **in parallel** - providing an independent, multi-source, document-anchored view of results that can be publicly compared to the official INEC IReV portal the moment INEC uploads its own EC8A scans. **Built for the 2027 Nigerian General Elections - and every election after.** --- ## The Problem We Are Solving In the 2023 Nigerian Presidential Election, the INEC Result Viewing portal (IReV) - designed to show real-time polling unit results - experienced failures that prevented timely uploads of presidential election results. The fundamental question of whet …