Pakistan

Voters list with pictures to be used in 2018 general elections

Project will also be launched to give overseas Pakistanis right to vote, says parliamentary body on electoral reforms

Our Correspondent March 15, 2016

The committee also decided to launch a pilot project to give overseas Pakistanis the right to vote. PHOTO: AFP

ISLAMABAD: Electoral rolls in the 2018 general elections will have pictures of every voter, aimed at keeping impersonators away from polling stations.

The decision was taken by a sub-committee of Parliament looking into proposals to reform the election system.

While the candidates and their representatives sitting in a polling station would be provided voters list without pictures of women voters, a separate list with the presiding officers will have pictures of all male and female voters.

Poll contestants to get voters list sans women’s pictures

The body, led by Minister for Climate Change Zahid Hamid, also decided that a voters list would also carry the date of publication.

The meeting even decided launching a pilot project to give overseas Pakistanis the right to vote. Internet and smartphones would be used to cast such votes and to test the project.

Talking to media, Hamid said the penal will soon finalise its recommendations and present them to Parliament to enact laws accordingly.

The parliamentary committee on electoral reforms was constituted in August 2014 to come up with a legislative package for improving the electoral system.

COMMENTS (2)

Salman Elahi | 8 years ago | Reply Voter pictures are already on the voter lists provided by NADRA to ECP. They were directly taken by NADRA from the CNIC database. This will have zero impact. The thing that will have the most impact is electronic voting machines and instant biometric verification much like sim verification. For overseas Pakistanis, there needs to be a designated member of parliament or even two or three. And all Overseas Pakistanis ought to vote for the overseas candidates from various political parties. OPs voting across 272 constituencies just does not make sense.

Shakil Ahmed | 8 years ago | Reply who are you fooling, last voter lists also had photos printed with it! but who look for photos when you have allowed to stuff ballot boxes during and after the voting. plus the counting process is highly flawed with many presiding officers vanished overnight and appeared only the next day :)

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