Door-to-door verification of voters’ list to begin tomorrow

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Door to door verification of the voters’ list will start tomorrow (Monday), Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Secretary Ishtiaq Ahmad Khan said.
Addressing a press conference at the ECP on Saturday he said that the door-to-door verification will be completed by September 30, 2011.
“This is a historic development in Pakistan which shall ensure free and transparent elections in the country,” he said.
He said NADRA had provided the Election Commission with voters’ lists of over 800 million people and 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 been divided in into 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 completion 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 final list.
A voter would be allowed to cost his vote at either his permanent or temporary address but NADRA’s unique identification system would make it impossible for individuals to cast dual votes, 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.
To a question, Khan said that women were deprived of their right to vote by mutual consent of contesting candidates in several constituencies and the ECP had recommended that the government and parliament introduce laws declaring elections null and void in constituencies where less than 20 percent of registered women voters cast their votes.
He said that NADRA already updated the electoral roll by removing unidentified voters and adding more that 36 million new voters.
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.
Water marked ballot papers: He said that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has also decided to introduce water marked ballot papers aiming to eliminate fraudulent voting and the Printing Corporation of Pakistan had been asked to print water marked ballot papers.
“These steps by the ECP will improve the system and enforce the rule of the ballot, not bullet,” the secretary said.

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  1. A commendable endeavour by ECP and NADRA! In Pakistan everything is in place to have fair elections. I hope ECP uses a fair and courageous criteria to scrutinise the candidates for the election too , so that Constitution’s clause is rightly applied to reject all criminals, dishonest and corrupt people.

  2. A.A
    we r very happy to here that u r working in mega project of voter lists ,we want part of ur work in that mega project .we have many people round about 500 members ,so we want work with u.
    President.DTC ,Dhakku shahana Dist/Hafizabad cell no/03466524710
    sectry cell no/03456404808

  3. AS.ALAIKUM, I M VERY HAPPY TO LISTEN THIS THAT ECP HAS STARTED DOOR TO DOOR VERIFICATION OF VOTER LIST, BUT NOW A DAY I WAS AT MY HOME WHEN TEAM OF ECP CAME IN OUR STREET FOR VERIFICATION OF VOTER LIST, I WAS SHOCKED TO SEE THIS THAT MY AND MY FAMILY MEMBERS ARE NOT LISTED IN VOTER LIST, WE ARE REGULARY COST OUR VOTE IN EVERY ELECTION, AND THE BEHAVIOUR OF ECP TEAM IS NOT COOPERATIVE, THEY ARE JUST DO BUSY AND DO NOTHING BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO FAMILY REGISTRATION FORM AND SAY TO ALL STREET RESIDENTIALS TO DROP YOUR FORM TO A SHOPKEEPER , BUT AFTER ALL I M VERY HAPPY OF CONFIRMATION OF VOTER LIST. (NAVEED, 37405-5057971-1)

  4. i am not satisfied from this process because my whole family names not included in the voter list. I already provide data in current voter data collection . it is better to get data from NADRA CNIC data record and then verified it more reliable.

  5. its good that the date has been extended till 30th oct because i have yet to get myself registered! no one has visited my area so far either:( saddar, rawalpindi! its my first time voting and i don't want to miss out. thank you imran khan and ecp for your efforts in upgrading the system, i will insha allah get my and my family's vote registered in time and vote for the most deserving candidate out there 😀 downloaded the form just now. here are the links: http://insaf.pk/Support/GetYourVoteRegistered/tab

  6. In GULSHAN-E-HADEED PH II ECP staff delivered forms for registration door to door in last month
    Butt they have not collected them back till now.
    In the light of above how it is possible to manage correct & complete voter list.

    ABDUL NAEEM HOUSE NO. A-2056 PH II GULSHAN -E- HADEED BIN QASIM KHI.

  7. my father name is not correctly mentioned in voter list .kindly do correct this error. Im from M.B.Din.punjab,dist malakwal..mainagondal.3440124712455 is my id..kindly contemplate this

  8. A.-o-A
    no one has visited our house for registration of vote. # 548, sector P . phase 1. GHA lahore. phone no 042-35890713 / 0300-9452092.

  9. I am not satisfied from this process because my whole family names not included in the voter list. I already provide data in current voter data collection . it is better to get data from NADRA CNIC data record and then verified it more reliable.

  10. I am not satisfied from this process because my whole family names not included in the voter list. I already provide data in current voter data collection . it is better to get data from NADRA CNIC data record and then verified it more reliable.My CNIC NO is 54400-4995321-5

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