摘要：—Free and fair elections is known to be central to good governance. The interregnum between the time voting is concluded and results declared is often used by mischief makers to manipulate the results of elections. This work presents ways and means of reducing the time between voting activities and results publication to the barest minimum. This is done by automatically transmitting, collating and publishing results from urban and remote places to central servers. Nigeria with its huge population, large mass area, and an extensive difficult terrain without internet access presents us with an appropriate case to study. This method will be applicable to similar electoral constituencies especially in developing countries.A results collation and transmission system was designed and implemented using Nigerian Elections as a case study. Election results are collated from every polling points (about 132,000 locations) sent using a mobile application to a central server. These results are collated using an SQL database. Collated results are subsequently displayed in a result portal using PHP. This process leads to a huge reduction in the time it takes to collate and publish election results and subsequently leading to a free and fair elections. The tests conducted show an 95% effectiveness in the transmitted result and a reduction of Result transmission time from about 3 days to 6 hour
