ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has planned to introduce biometric machines for voting in upcoming Karachi bye-election on trial basis.
According to an ECP official, the functioning of the biometric voting machines deployed in the bye-election would be thoroughly monitored by the Commission's technical team.
He said the commission had been working on its own storage facility and for the purpose it had already arranged buildings in 19 districts while 10 more would be obtained soon.
He said the the ECP had completed listing of 70,000 polling stations on the Goggle map to facilitate the people. It had approved a comprehensive training programme for its presiding officers, assistant presiding officers, polling officers and other staff, he added.
He said total 586,000 ECP staff would be trained during a year and total 23,440 training sessions would be held throughout the country. He added the training of master trainers had been completed, who would further train the officers to improve their professional skills.
He said the Commission had asked the provincial governments to take serious notice of such polling stations lacking basic facilities for voters and asked to arrange the same.
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