Enabling: ECP introduces e-ticket service
This makes Pakistan the only country in the world offering the facility.
ISLAMABAD:
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) inaugurated the e-ticket service on Monday enabling 80.61 million voters to have prompt knowledge about the details of their polling station, block code and serial number by just messaging their Computerised National Identity Card (CNIC) number to 8300.
This makes Pakistan the only country in the world offering the facility.
In reply, the ECP will send the block code, serial number in the voters list, the name of the polling station and the constituency number in which the voter is enrolled.
ECP secretary Ishtiaq Ahmed Khan said political parties could distribute paper chits to their voters 48 hours before the commencement of polling.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 7th, 2013.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) inaugurated the e-ticket service on Monday enabling 80.61 million voters to have prompt knowledge about the details of their polling station, block code and serial number by just messaging their Computerised National Identity Card (CNIC) number to 8300.
This makes Pakistan the only country in the world offering the facility.
In reply, the ECP will send the block code, serial number in the voters list, the name of the polling station and the constituency number in which the voter is enrolled.
ECP secretary Ishtiaq Ahmed Khan said political parties could distribute paper chits to their voters 48 hours before the commencement of polling.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 7th, 2013.