ECP considers bill for personal or postal voting facility to expatriates

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The Senate Standing Committee on Law and Justice is considering a bill to grant the right of voting to the Overseas Pakistanis. Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resources Development official said that four ministries were involved in the process. The ministry has recommended the grant of right of vote to expatriates in the proposed draft policy for overseas Pakistanis and recommended that personal voting and postal ballot may be more viable option to be exercised by overseas Pakistanis having NICOP cards issued by NARDA. There are different options being used by the different countries in the world, including personal voting and embassies and mission to act as polling stations, postal ballot, proxy votes and electronic voting on line.

However, it is for the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to determine the most feasible option in line with the law and available facilities, the minister informed.

The official said presently, the overseas Pakistanis do not have voting right from abroad and it cannot be said whether it would be highly inconvenient for the expatriates living abroad to cast their vote in embassies and consulates.

The mechanism being proposed, personal and ballot may take care of both these eventualities, however, it is up to the ECP to determine as to which mechanism suits and can facilitate the overseas Pakistanis for casting of their votes, the official added.

Since such event has not been experienced, it would be difficult to say whether sending the election material would be difficult or otherwise.

However, the ECP is a responsible agency for dispatching the election material. Therefore, the ECP would be in a better position to comment.

The official said that voting through personal and postal method is being proposed. However, final determination of mode of election/casting of vote is the mandate of the ECP.

The ministry is of the view that candidate be voted rather than the parties as being done presently and uniform policy may be followed in the country for all voters, be they inside out side country.

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