National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has included picture of each and every voter on all computerised electoral rolls, making it more authentic and reliable.
This initiative can be described as “historic” as the authority, by using its citizens database under the directives of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) completed the task.
An official source at NADRA on Sunday said on the demand of political parties and civil society organisations it has delivered Final Electoral Rolls 2012 (FER) to provinces.
The Final Electoral Rolls (FER) has been dispatched to Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), Sindh, Punjab and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).
The copy-1 and copy-2 of FER 2012 with photographs have been delivered to Balochistan, KP and FATA while copies-1 and 2 with photographs of Sindh (except Karachi) have been printed and delivered.
The copy-1 of FER 2012 of 32 districts of Punjab out of 37 have been printed and delivered.
Similarly, the copy-2 of FER 2012 of 5 out of 37 districts of Punjab has been printed.
He said total 86,189,751 voters have been registered in the current electoral rolls, out of which total voters from Punjab are 49.25 million, Sindh 18.96 million, Balochistan 3.33 million, KP 12.26 million, FATA 1.73 million and 0.626 million voters from Islamabad.
For many years electoral rolls in Pakistan were prepared only through door-to-door enumeration and there was absence of any authentic data to back the process up.
However, in new method, the data of approximately 81.2 million compiled during preparation on previous rolls was transferred to NADRA for verification by ECP.
Thus all such records which were not backed with a Computerised National Identity Card (CNIC) were removed, since CNIC was declared to be requisite for registration as voter as a consequence of this, 37 million unverified voters that were identified in previous voters list were sorted out and all duplicate and fake entries were quashed.
Enumerating the salient features of voter lists, the official said total length of list is 21,900kms and printed voter lists have comprehensive information of voters.
He also disclosed that these electoral rolls prepared on basis of electoral areas (census block and sorted in order of moza/deh/patwar/tehsil and district.
