LAHORE:
Over 20 per cent of the votes cast in Lahore’s NA-125 constituency were “bogus”, according to a National Database Registration Authority (NADRA) report.
The vote verification report – spread over 125 pages – was submitted to the election tribunal on Saturday.
NADRA checked a total of 1,254 votes and declared 280 bogus. The said votes were rejected for want of verification of thumbprint and CNIC numbers, whereas at some instances, one person had cast multiple votes, the report said.
The NA-125 seat was won by Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique. The runner-up was PTI candidate Hamid Khan, who challenged the results in the Election Tribunal seeking vote verification by NADRA.
The database registration authority submitted its report before the tribunal stating that among the five polling stations it had checked, 280 out of 1,254 votes were bogus and at one polling station one person had cast six votes, while at another 12 persons had cast their ballots twice.
The five polling stations that were checked by NADRA included PS-110, PS-107, PS-98, PS-6 and PS-5. Thumb-impressions of several of the voters at these five polling stations could not be verified.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 14th, 2014.
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A person can only ballot twice or more times if the ink was defective. This is not just 22% bogus votes. If 2 bags can't be found it means more than 22% error or doubt. Duplicate vote on such a scale means that there were more than 22 thieves per hundred or about 1 bag out of 4 is rigged. If bags of certain constitunecy are missing, it is a shame. Everyone has heard of rigging. Seeing this is dusgusting.
The question is not who was the beneficiary! The question is what should be done to avoid it?
@ Ahmed The news article mentions 5 polling stations, not '5 constituencies'. Let me guess, you must be a PMLN supporter.
Hence proved that if you have big mouth, it is not sufficient to change the facts. It wont be a surprise if the thumb which was used to cast 6 votes belonged to Saad Rafiq's hand, and those 6 votes were from a women's polling station.
Winner of these 5 constituencies is PTI. So they rigged the elections.
RO IK RO
Saw the report. All 5 stations were own by pti. Hence who is the rigger?
Misleading reporting. What ET calls "bogus" votes were the votes where the thumb impression was not good enough to be verified. It doesn't mean they were bogus. Only one person, out of over 1200, cast six votes and twelve persons cast two votes each. We don't know in whose favor these votes were cast. In any case, it would not change the final result. The winner won by some 40,000 votes lead.
@Raheel: You are right! How dare PMLN supporters even insinuate that it could be angels of PTI who could have cast the fake votes :-) If you want to catch a glimpse of these angels, feel free to take a look at their angelic faces invading Parliament, PM House, vandalizing PTV .... the list goes on!
ofcourse the winners took the favour of it..does it need any rocket science to think and conclude?..and yes Ch.Alladad i am waiting for your strange(though funny)explanation..
@Sana Votes were obviously casted for the one who rigged and won. Also, if we contend ourselves that it was only because of magnetic ink that a true outcome cannot be decided, then I ask you and all Noora leaguers whose job it is to carry out an investigation? Noora league has been avoiding to investigate the magnetic ink culprit just goes to show they are afraid they'll have to expose the doings of their own paid thugs!
So meny PMLN supporters think that the bogus or Fraudulent votes are of PTI. This makes me laugh at the mindset of PMLN. If PTI had put 22% bogus votes then why did PMLN win?
@Sha: Easy to guess!
Well, the report will at least declare win of PMLN Khwaja Sada Rafiq null and void, a blow to the tall claim of PMLN that it gained power with heavy mandate of the people.
This vindicates PMLN. Votes have been declared bogus as the same cannot be verified due to use of non magnetic ink by ECP and does not mean PMLn engaged in rigging. Also the scrapped votes could have been casted in favor of PTI. Ro PTI troll Ro.
Nadra report did not tell who got these fake votes if any. both canidate can get these votes then what is reason of joy by pti
@ahmad khan: And what is that difference?
Where are all those raiwand paid trolls ??
"at some instances, one person had cast multiple votes, the report said." Hmm I wonder who that person was.
The downfall of Nawaz party has began.
bye bye Nawaz
No wonder Khawaja Saad Rafique Saab is not answering my calls
This news should shut the mouth of Imran Khan and PTI haters!!! #GoNawazGo
At least the guy whose thumb impression was found in more than one vote should be declared an offender and jailed to set a minimum example of punishment. If ECP cannot do anything else, this is the least they can do.
There is difference between fake and bogus.
So 20% of all votes casted in lahore are fake. I am sure this percentage will be more than 50% in karachi and rural areas of sindh. In such conditions there is no use of participating in elections.
In whose favor bogus votes were cast. There are high chances the votes were cast in favor of pti.
Now Even NADRA a Department under the control of the #NawazRegime has Admitted Election Fraud, No Matter How much the Brutal Regime's apologists in Media and Propaganda Machine try to down play the Nation wide rigging the country has rejected the Government excuses
Question is: in whose favour were the bogus votes cast?
Well........all the political party's including the PML-N have said that rigging took place.........this only confirms it.......and 22% is not small rigging.