ECP training staff for verification of voters

As a part of its efforts to make error free Computerised Electoral Rolls (CER) 2011, Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is conducting training of the staff appointed for the door-to-door verification of the voters to be started from July 18. An ECP official told APP that the verification process would be conducted with the help of newly devised 145,000 census blocks by Census Organisation across the country for making transparent and error free Computerised Electoral Rolls (CER) 2011.
The teams, after completing the training, will complete the verification process in their respective census blocks till August 16 and submit data to the ECP. The ECP will finalise the electoral rolls with the help of data of 85.1 million adult population (91 percent of the total population) provided by National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) and the voter lists made in 2007.
The teams will go door-to-door and get a form filled from a family to update and verify the information. The form will be signed by the head of the family. The ECP is trying to strictly implement the law under which CNIC of the dead person is supposed to be returned back to Nadra within one month. The district administration shall also be made responsible to inform the ECP through district offices.
Usually, the family members of the deceased person do not go to Nadra for cancellation of his CNIC, which is very essential to update the voter list. The information of the citizen with the age of 18 years will be collected through this census, enrolling him on temporary basis so that he can make his CNIC.
The final voter list will be displayed for 21 days in September at different locations across the country so that the citizens can check their names and complain about any error, objection, correction. A tribunal will be made to address the complaints of the citizens after displaying the final voter list, which will issue notices to both the respondent and petitioner. The ECP with the help of Nadra is making a transparent database and the CNIC number would be used as a unique identifier for the existing voters' list to discourage the trend of fake voting and to avoid double entry.