THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Tuesday, expressed satisfaction over the outcome of the last week Saturday’s mock election it conducted in some polling centres in some states of the federation, using the card reader technology. This was contained in a statement made available to the newsmen in Abuja, on Tuesday, by the chief press secretary to the chairman of the commission, Mr Kayode Idowu. The commission, however, admitted that while there were some issues with biometric authentication of persons who presented their PVCs at the polling units, it said 59 per cent of voters who turned out for the demonstration had their fingerprints successfully authenticated. It, however, said an agreement was initially reached by the registered political parties, as contained in the approved guidelines for the conduct of the 2015 elections that where biometric authentication of a legitimate holder of a genuine PVC became challenging, there could be physical authentication of the person and completion of an incident form, to allow the person to vote. Idowu said INEC took a serious view of the high rate of failure of the card readers to authenticate voters’ fingerprints in some areas, particularly in Ebonyi State and had decided to thoroughly investigate the cause, as well as repeat the public demonstration in the state on March 14. The statement added that the commission had met on Monday to consider field reports from the public demonstration of smart card readers conducted in 12 states on Saturday. “INEC is satisfied that the use of SCRs in the 2015 general election will add tremendous transparency and credibility to the accreditation process on election day,” the statement added.