Pakistan Views

Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has issued CDs containing the computerized voter lists; the CD for any constituency can be bought against the payment of Rs200.

Talking to Geo News, Secretary ECP Kanwar Dilshad Ahmed says the commission has published CDs comprising the names of 81 million voters for 272 constituencies of National Assembly.

He said the political parties started gaining the CDs of voters’ names, adding CDs of electoral lists have been handed to People’s Party Election Monitoring Committee Chairman Lateef Khosa as well as the representatives of Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q) and PML-N also attained these CDs.

The EC Secretary said other political parties also could get these CDs; however, a final list of voters would be provided after the Eid holidays.

Referring to the training of electoral staff, Mr Dilshad said the second phase of the process would be completed by the end of this month; 550,000 election workers would be trained in this phase.

Secretary Election Commission said the printing work of ballot papers is in progress to be completed in the first week of January, adding the Returning Officers would hand over the ballot papers and other election accessories to the polling staff one day before the election date.

He claimed the Election Commission has deleted the names of 3.7 million *bogus* voters from the final list.