Election Commission of Pakistan excluded 37.1 million suspected voters from the electoral rolls and the new electoral roll is composed of more than 87.2 million voters.
The Secretary ECP Ishtiak Ahmad Khan issued details from headquarter of Election Commission of Pakistan on Saturday.
Ishtiak Ahmad Khan said the ECP handed over its database of
Electoral Rolls-2007 to NADRA on 11th February 2011 for verification of
voters against their database. NADRA reported back on 05/03/2011 that
out of 81 Million voters registered in Final Electoral Rolls 2007, 44
Million voters were verified against CNIC database whereas
approximately 37 Million voters were not verified which was made public
by the ECP through a press release dated 8th March 2011.
After deletion of these 37 million unverified voters from the Draft
Electoral Rolls, 2011, NADRA added 36 million who had obtained CNIC
after preparation of Electoral Rolls-2007. NADRA can provide evidence
from its database with regard to 37 Million unverified voters as well
as 36 Million voters who have been added into the Draft Electoral
Rolls, 2011.
The Secretary ECP drew attention to section 26 of the Electoral
Rolls Act 1974 according to which “An Electoral Roll shall not be
invalid by reason of any mis-description of a person enrolled thereon
or of omission of the name of any person to be so enrolled or of
inclusion of the name of any person not so entitled”. Therefore, the
Electoral Rolls, 2007 will remain intact until the electoral rolls
being revised are finally published in 2012 by the Election Commission
of Pakistan.
In this regard, the ECP is now releasing district wise details of
NADRA augmented record which, along with verified record of Final
Electoral Rolls – 2007, has resulted in Draft Electoral Rolls (DER),
2011, as per attached list which is also available at the ECP website
www.ecp.gov.pk .
Secretary ECP said that 41 percent voters of Punjab are declared
suspected and exclude 15.7 million votes from 40.5 million listed votes.
He said 77 percent voters of Sindh are declared as suspected and excluded 10.5 million votes from 15.7 million listed votes.
The ECP also excluded over 2.7 million votes from the registered 4.2
million votes of Balochistan; meanwhile the ECP declare 46 percents
votes of Khyber Pakhtunkhwah as suspected and excluded over 14 million
votes from the a total of 80.1 million votes.
The ECP also excluded 0.7 million votes from 0.12 million listed
voters of FATA; meanwhile the ECP also added more than 36 million new
votes.
It is worth mentioning here that the old electoral list was composed
of over 81 million votes while the new list is composed of more than
87.2 million votes. SANA
