Tag: Voters

Egypt candidates court undecided voters

Egypt’s presidential election frontrunners were vying for deals with rival candidates Sunday in a bid to appease a polarised nation that will choose between...

Bringing voters to election camps violation of law: SC

The Supreme Court on Wednesday observed that political parties continue their election campaign even on the polling day, which was a sheer violation of...

Names of hundreds of dead people in voters’ list of KPK

Large scale errors and omissions have been noticed in voters lists of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa complied by NADRA. According to details, names of hundreds of dead...

ECP rejects resolutions over voters’ lists

The Election Commission of Pakistan on Wednesday declined requests made by three provincial assemblies for extension of timeframe for preparation of electoral lists. The ECP...

Voters’ registration ‘conspiracy’

The officials of National Database Registration Authority (NADRA) and Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) would next week clear their positions before the Sindh Assembly,...

New voters’ lists for 10 constituencies prepared

The Elections Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and National Database Registration Authority (NADRA) have prepared new electoral rolls to hold bye-elections in 10 constituencies. The...

EC spending Rs 690 million on staff preparing voters lists

Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has approved the allocation of more than Rs 690 million for the staff involved in the preparation of computerized...

SC seeks record of eunuchs’ enlisting as voters

The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the authorities concerned to provide the record of issuance of computerised national identity cards to eunuchs and their...

CJ directs ECP to get voters’ lists ready by Dec 31st

The Supreme Court of Pakistan Wednesday directed the Election Commission to complete preparation of voters' lists by December 31. A three-member bench of the apex...

Voters’ registration deadline in Peshawar must be extended: PTI

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Peshawar on Monday demanded the government to extend the registration process of voters in the region. Addressing a public...

Draft electoral rolls of 80m voters printed

The gigantic task of printing draft electoral rolls of more than 80 million eligible voters under the close supervision of the Election Commission of...

Voters’ verification from August 8

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has rescheduled the process of door-to-door verification of the voters which will now start from August 8, aimed...

Russell Brand, Beyonce invited to be Oscar voters

Even after struggling to establish himself as a Hollywood leading man, English comedian Russell Brand has been invited to become an Oscar voter. He...

US voters uncomfortable with Mormon president: poll

US voters are uncomfortable with the idea of a president who is a Mormon, even as Massachusetts ex-governor Mitt Romney, a member of that...

SC disposes of bogus voters’ case

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Thursday disposed of a petition regarding deletion of 37.8 million bogus votes in the electoral rolls.
A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and consisting of Justice Mohammad Sair Ali and Justice Ghulam Rabbani heard the case of 37.8 million bogus names included in the electoral rolls of various constituencies. During the hearing, Election Commission of Pakistan Secretary Ishtiak Ahmed Khan informed the court

US voters credit Obama for economy upswing

WASHINGTON - US voters are seeing signs of a brighter economy and are crediting President Barack Obama for the upturn, but by a narrow margin want Congress to repeal his health care overhaul, a poll showed on Tuesday.
The Quinnipiac University poll showed that 54 percent of respondents said they believed the US economy is beginning to recover, with 43 percent disagreeing. Nonetheless, the survey showed a 53 to 40 percent majority disapproved of Obama's economic management.

Grim mood for divided American voters

NEW YORK: Crisp, sunny skies greeted US voters on Tuesday but the mood at polling stations was dark as Democrats desperately defended President Barack Obama and angry Republicans aimed for a crippling blow.
In Harlem, a historically African-American, pro-Democratic neighborhood of New York, a sense of urgency reigned as voters streamed to polling stations before heading to work. "The reason I got up early to come here today is a lot of people figure a Republican win is a done