ECP issues details of verified/unverified and augmented voters

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan, after due deliberation, decided in November 2009 to revise computerized Electoral Rolls, 2007 in collaboration with NADRA using their CNIC as a 'unique identifier'.

The decision was made in wake of complaints made about multiple and bogus entries in the Electoral Rolls-2007, and as all the political parties, civil society, and media were demanding rectification of these errors/ misdescriptions. Since then the ECP and NADRA have been working together to materialize this dream which is now, Allah Willing, close to fruition, says a press release issued Saturday. Imran Khan, Chairman, Pakistan Tehreek Insaf, also filed a Constitutional Petition No. 3{011 on 7th April 2011 in the Supreme Court for deletion of the unverified voters from the Electoral Rolls-2007 and incorporation of new eligible vote verified from NADRA's database. ECP apprised the Supreme Court that the unverified voters had already been deleted from the Draft Electoral Rolls, 2011, 36 million had been added therein and that the same would now be verified through door to door verification. Ishtiak Ahmed Khan, Secretary, ECP said the ECP handed over its database of Electoral Rolls-2007 to NADRA on 11th February 2011 for verification of voters against their database.

The Secretary ECP drew attention to section 26 of the Electoral Rolls Act 1974 according to which "An Electoral Roll shall not be invalid by reason of any misdescription of a person enrolled thereon or of omission of the name of any person to be so enrolled or of inclusion of the name of any person not so entitled". Therefore, the Electoral Rolls, 2007 will remain intact until the electoral rolls being revised are finally published in 2012 by the Election Commission of Pakistan. In this regard, the ECP is now releasing district wise details of NADRA augmented record which, alongwith verified record of Final E! lectoral Rolls - 2007, has resulted in Draft Electoral Rolls (DER), 2011, as per attached list which is also available at the ECP website www.ecp.gov.pk .

The Secretary, ECP Mr. Ishtiak Ahmad Khan has expressed his gratitude to the honourable teachers involved in the door-to-door verification exercise who have always performed this task of national importance with dedication and passion and appealed to them to complete the ongoing verification exercise as well with same zeal, especially when this is going to be the last verification exercise as thereafter the ECP is making arrangements with NADRA for continuous updating of the voter list in light of issuance of new CNICs in the future.


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