Africa-first · Nigeria 2027 · Citizen transparency layer
Bincika. Look closer.
bincika (Hausa, verb): to examine, to look into, to scrutinise · Mu bincika tare: let us examine it together.
Citizens photograph the result sheet posted at every polling unit. Binchika compares those photos with INEC's IReV uploads and publishes the comparison for anyone to audit. No party gets a louder voice.
Presidential & National Assembly
Saturday 16 January 2027 · WAT
Governorship & State Houses of Assembly
Saturday 6 February 2027 · WAT
Dates come from INEC's revised timetable under the Electoral Act 2026 (source). Countdowns run to midnight WAT at the start of each election day.
No votes have been cast. On election night this panel will show, in very large letters, which party is ahead in the citizen count and by how much. It will never say who won. Only INEC can do that.
0 of 176,846 polling units reported · open the ledger
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How it works
From a photo at the polling unit to a public record.
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Photograph the result sheet
When counting ends, the presiding officer posts Form EC8A at the polling unit. Any citizen can photograph it. Photograph the sheet only, never people.
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Share it and tag Binchika
Send the photo by any channel. Your handle becomes a one-way code straight away, so we never store who you are.
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Read the numbers
Open-source text recognition reads each party's votes. Anything the machine is unsure of goes to a person to check.
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Compare every source
When at least 85% of independent reports from a unit agree, the tally is high confidence. It is then compared with INEC's IReV upload. Any mismatch is flagged, with its sources and reason.
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Publish for anyone to check
Every processed tally joins a hash-chained public ledger. Altering any entry breaks the chain, and anyone can see that it broke.
The scale
One country, 176,846 places to look.
Wards, polling units and voters are INEC's 2023 figures and will be updated when INEC publishes the 2027 register. The 774 LGAs come from the Constitution's First Schedule and match GRID3 boundaries.
Who is registered: sex
Who is registered: age
What we can't tell you (yet)
INEC does not publish turnout or party support by age or sex. If Binchika shows such figures on election day, they come from citizen reports and are labelled crowdsourced, never presented as official.
Register breakdown: INEC's final 2023 register (93,469,008 voters), as reported by Channels TV and ICIR. It will be updated for 2027.
Neutrality pledge
No party gets a louder voice.
No advertising, ever
No party ads, sponsored posts or paid placement. No money tied to any party, candidate or affiliate.
Equal space for all parties
All 22 INEC-registered parties get identical cards, shuffled on every visit. Colours are assigned alphabetically and carry no meaning.
Anyone can audit it
The code, the confidence rules and every processed tally are public. If we get something wrong, you can prove it.