NA-19 Elections To Be Held On Bio-Metric System On 16th August

ECP introduce biometric systemHaripur: The Election commission Of Pakistan (ECP) is all set to install bio metric system for NA-19 elections which is going to be held on 16th August,2015. According to the details, 60 biometric machines will install at 30 polling stations of Haripur out of 537 polling stations on trial basis.

According to a press, technical assistance will be provided by National Database and Registration Authority, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority and UFONE on polling day. However, Senior ECP officials had also visited Haipur in order to hold meeting with representatives so that it could be explain that why commission decided to introduce bio-metrics. In this regard, an agreement has also been signed between ECP and the representatives of all nine candidates who are contesting in NA-19 elections.

On the other hand, ECP’s officials also clarified during the meeting that any voter will be allowed to cast vote manually through polling’s agent verification, if any thumb impression will not be verified with the help of voting machines. It is worth mentioning here that political parties requested the move of installing of biometric voting machines with the help of Electoral Reforms Committee of Parliament (ERCP).

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