Election
Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has decided to introduce water marked
ballot papers aiming to eliminate fraudulent voting, Secretary ECP
Ishtiak Ahmed Khan said Saturday.Addressing
a news conference here he said, Printing Corporation of Pakistan has
been asked to print water marked ballot papers. ECP was pursuing a
mission to plug loopholes in the country’s electoral system and prepare
transparent and authentic voter lists, rule of ballot not bullet would
be ensured in the country.
In next elections new computerized
voters’ lists will be issued without pictures, however the presiding
officer will have lists which contain pictures of the voters.
Enabling environment is being provided to citizens to cost their votes without any coercion. Fake or dual voting has been made impossible. Transparent voter list would lead to make country as prosperous, he said.
NADRA had provided the Election Commission with voters’ lists of over 800 million people. A door-to-door campaign to verify the identity of the draft electoral rolls would start from August 22. Over 200,000 verifying officials would conduct the verification exercise across the country.
The electoral rolls have already been distributed in 130 districts. The country has already been divided in to 140000 census blocks.
After the verification process the voters’ lists will be handed over to NADRA and the final lists will be issued in March.
The Secretary added that after compeletion the new voters lists, repeat entries will not be possible.
After completing the exercise, people would be provided opportunity to pinpoint any mistakes in the electoral rolls.
The final voter list would be printed in March 2012. And new elections would be held in accordance with the list.
A voter would be allowed to cost his vote at permanent or temporary address. Due to NADRA’s unique identifier it has been made impossible for a person to cost dual vote as the system would automatically detect the cheater, he said.
After the issuance final voter lists, a mechanism would also be in place to register the vote of each and every new Computerised National Identity Card (CNIC) holder. NADRA will hand over the data of each new CNIC holder to ECP for onward inclusion in the voter list after scrutiny.
Regarding forceful prevention of women to cost vote in some districts, he said an amendment has been proposed in the constitution to defer the announcement of the result of entire constituency if less than 20 percent vote polled in any women polling station.
Regarding the verification of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) he said Ministry of States and Frontier Region (SAFRON) has been asked to provide the list of IDPs for onward verification. APP
Enabling environment is being provided to citizens to cost their votes without any coercion. Fake or dual voting has been made impossible. Transparent voter list would lead to make country as prosperous, he said.
NADRA had provided the Election Commission with voters’ lists of over 800 million people. A door-to-door campaign to verify the identity of the draft electoral rolls would start from August 22. Over 200,000 verifying officials would conduct the verification exercise across the country.
The electoral rolls have already been distributed in 130 districts. The country has already been divided in to 140000 census blocks.
After the verification process the voters’ lists will be handed over to NADRA and the final lists will be issued in March.
The Secretary added that after compeletion the new voters lists, repeat entries will not be possible.
After completing the exercise, people would be provided opportunity to pinpoint any mistakes in the electoral rolls.
The final voter list would be printed in March 2012. And new elections would be held in accordance with the list.
A voter would be allowed to cost his vote at permanent or temporary address. Due to NADRA’s unique identifier it has been made impossible for a person to cost dual vote as the system would automatically detect the cheater, he said.
After the issuance final voter lists, a mechanism would also be in place to register the vote of each and every new Computerised National Identity Card (CNIC) holder. NADRA will hand over the data of each new CNIC holder to ECP for onward inclusion in the voter list after scrutiny.
Regarding forceful prevention of women to cost vote in some districts, he said an amendment has been proposed in the constitution to defer the announcement of the result of entire constituency if less than 20 percent vote polled in any women polling station.
Regarding the verification of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) he said Ministry of States and Frontier Region (SAFRON) has been asked to provide the list of IDPs for onward verification. APP
