New Initiative: UNDP to help train polling staff

New initiatives include use of electoral rolls with voters’ photographs, new counting forms and tamper evident bags.

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is preparing to train polling staff for the general elections with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES).

According to a statement issued here, at the launch of its training programme for master trainers, the ECP demonstrated the polling process which includes several new initiatives taken to increase transparency and public confidence in the elections.

Initiatives to be introduced at polling stations in the upcoming elections include the use of electoral rolls with voters’ photographs, new counting forms and tamper evident bags.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 4^th, 2013.