NA-125 constituency: NADRA report shows 280 out of 1,254 votes fake
Vote verification report – spread over 125 pages – submitted to the election tribunal
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.
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.