The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has submitted its report comprising 1,475 pages to the Election Tribunal investigating into alleged rigging in NA-122 constituency, Lahore.
The report was submitted by the NADRA acting chairman to the tribunal. The tribunal then summoned the NADRA chairman and adjourned the hearing till June 13.
According to the report, of the 6,123 votes on which wrong CNIC numbers were written, 96.7 percent were valid votes. It said the writing of wrong CNIC number on the counterfoil was a human error and when it was compared to the CNIC numbers on the voter lists, most of them were found to be correct. It elaborated that only 204 votes could be described as illegal. In about 70% cases, the report said, only one figure out of 13 was written wrongly while in 20% cases, two figures were wrong out of 13.
While objecting over the report, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf said that in several cases either the fingerprints were unreadable, or the CNIC numbers were wrong and in some cases the voters were not of the same constituency.
During the hearing, the acting chairman said that the chairman is presently out of the country and the hearing be adjourned after which the tribunal adjourned hearing till June 13.
