During a meeting of the sub-committee, which is headed by Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML)'s Zahid Hamid, the parliamentarians directed the poll body to also provide them with details of the estimated cost to implement electronic voting method, a time-frame to implement the system and chances of errors.
The ECP also gave a briefing to the sub-committee on the merits and demerits of implementing an electronic voting system and countries that have experimented with it. ECP officials pointed out a few countries that had implemented electronic voting method and later moved back to traditional ballot voting.
The sub-committee asked the poll body officials to provide more information on the system in the next meeting scheduled for November 17.
The Political Parties Order 2002 was also briefly discussed during the meeting as the committee seeks to make amendments to the law.
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PMLN is quick to invite Turkish experts to build metro and motor ways without any feasibility study at manifold higher cost than one can build them. But when it comes to electoral reform then they need briefings to know the feasibility – it is just time wasting strategies. PMLN make it looks like Pakistan is the only country on the face of earth where they are trying democratic system for the first time in the history of mankind. WHY DON’T THEY LOOK AT THE ELECTORAL SYSTEM IN INDIA or UK or CANADA and start with that and improve on it? Instead of wasting resources on feasibilities, they can just implement one tried and tested system in some other country.
The cost of electronic voting should not be a consideration of the parliamentarians - the cost of absence of fair elections is far higher. Secondly, as part of the reforms ECP should also commission NADRA conduct the elections instead of headmasters and teachers who have least knowledge about information technologies and in-experienced in people handling. Over and above NADRA should be made a constitutional body by removing the influence of politicians over it.
They will never agree to electronic voting.