 An Sen with Anambra State preliminary report by the Center for Democracy and Development has alleged widespread vote buying by political parties. The CDD director of research, Saeed Usaini, told a news conference that most of the electoral crimes were committed in the presence of security operatives. The group claimed the operatives looked the other way. Usaini also noted reports of the failure of bimodal voter accreditation system, or BIVIS. The new electronic system deployed for the Anambra governorship election. In several instances, the CDD director said the BIVIS failed to recognize voters' faces and fingerprints.