Nigeria 2027 · Citizen transparency layer
Bincika. Look closer.
bincika (Hausa, verb): to examine, to look into, to scrutinize. · Mu bincika tare: let us examine it together.
Every polling unit posts its result sheet. Citizens photograph it, and Binchika compares those photos with what INEC uploads to IReV. Anyone can check the comparison, and no party gets a louder voice.
Presidential & National Assembly
Saturday 16 January 2027
Governorship & State Houses of Assembly
Saturday 6 February 2027
Dates are from INEC's revised timetable under the Electoral Act 2026. The countdown runs to midnight WAT at the start of each election day. Source.
No votes have been cast. On election night this box 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 say that.
0 of 176,846 polling units reported
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 take a clear photo of it. Photograph the sheet, not people.
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Share it and tag Binchika
Send the photo to the Binchika bot or tag us. Your handle is turned into 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. Volunteer verifiers check anything the machine is unsure of.
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Compare every source
When at least 85% of independent reports from a unit agree, we call that tally high confidence. We then compare it with INEC's IReV upload. Any mismatch is flagged, with the sources and the reason shown.
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Publish it for anyone to check
Every processed tally goes into a public ledger with a timestamp and a content fingerprint. Copies sit on GitHub and IPFS, so nothing can be quietly changed.
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.
Neutrality pledge
No party gets a louder voice.
No advertising, ever
No party ads, sponsored posts or paid placement. Binchika takes no money tied to any party, candidate or affiliate.
Equal space for all parties
All 22 INEC-registered parties get identical cards. Their order is shuffled on every visit, and their colours are assigned alphabetically, so they mean nothing.
Anyone can audit it
The code, the confidence rules and every processed tally are public. If we get something wrong, you can prove it.