Election Commission begins registration of new voters

EC says 36 million new voters are expected to register through the campaign.

KARACHI:

The Election Commission of Pakistan (EC) has begun a door-to-door campaign for registration of new voters on Monday.

According to an EC official, 0.1 million people will be participating in the campaign. He said that 36 million new voters are expected to register through the campaign.

The list of new voters will be given to the National Database and Registration Authority.

Electoral rolls will be finalized with the help of data provided by NADRA of 85.1 million adults, and the voters list of 2007.

The process will be completed by the end of this year and the next general elections will be held under the new voters list.

Earlier this month, the EC had informed the Supreme Court that 35 million unverified voters have been removed from the National Database and Registration Authority’s (NADRA) record while around 36 million new voters have been added to the database.

This information was disclosed when a three-member bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry resumed the hearing of a petition, filed by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan, who raised questions on the authenticity of voters who participated in the 2008 general elections.