Citizens urged to get themselves registered as voter
District Election Commissioner (DEC) Rawalpindi Shaheen Ghazal has urged the citizens to cooperate with the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and actively take part in the ongoing voters’ registration and verification process which would continue till December 21.
She said that the DEC had set up a cell for the voters' registration complaints. She said that the citizens can lodge complaints if any about the voters’ registration on the numbers of the complaint cell including 051-9290177, 051-9290174 and 0333-7734243.
Ghazal said that the door-to-door voters’ verification campaign was in full swing in the Rawalpindi district. A total of 3,454,461 voters were registered in the Rawalpindi district while all persons who were eligible would be registered under the campaign before the 2023 general election, she said.
She said that the ECP has started a door-to-door voters’ verification and authentication campaign across the Rawalpindi district. The first phase of the verification campaign would continue till December 21 while the second phase of electoral rolls’ verification would commence from Jan 26 next year. The ECP has extended the last date of the ongoing door-to-door verification of electoral rolls campaign across the country till December 21.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 6th, 2021.