The Independent National Electoral Commission,INECsays card readers will shut down automatically by 10:00PM on the day of elections. INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this onWednesday in Abuja during a briefing on the progress made by the commissionfollowing the postponement of the general elections. He said the card readers are configured to specificpolling units and only open for use at 8:00AM on the Election Day; they willautomatically shut down by 10:00PM in order to forestall any illegal use of thecard readers before the appointed time for elections. Professor Yakubu explained that the card readerswere introduced in 2015 to facilitate the accreditation of the electorate usingthe Permanent Voter Cards,PVC. Following the postponement of the elections, he saidthey were reconfigured to the new date of February 23, to make them impossibleto be used for ulterior motives.