My experience in Election 2008

February 19, 2008 – 11:44 pm | by mkm

On Monday, 18 February 2008 (day of 9th General Election of Pakistan) , I was energetic to cast my vote for the better future of Pakistan. When I reached to polling station with my father and tried to find my vote number from the voters list, I found that my vote is not listed in the registered voters.

In the past, I had used my vote option three times in life. Twice in local bodies elections and once in year 2002 for general election of Pakistan.

At this time, in new computerized voters list, my vote is not listed. While my younger brother have vote and he availed his chance to poll first time in his life.

So, I returned home without poll. I discussed this thing with my neighbour friend, he said that vote of his father is also not listed.
Another neighbour complained that his wife and mother unable to cast their vote due to same issue.

My Suggestion to improve voters list.

I think, election commission should consider the update/upgrade electrol system especially after computerized National Identity cards.

As each computerized NIC has expiry date. So, there is no need to create other list for voters.

  • Each 18 years old citizen of Pakistan who have computerized NIC; should have right to poll.
  • So, when the computerized card will expire the vote will automatically removed from the list.

Another issue with election commission website. The search to check the vote is not effective. That should be improve and remove the bugs. As lot of names are incorrect in the computerized voters list.

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  1. 3 Responses to “My experience in Election 2008”

  2. By Shafiq Rehman on Feb 20, 2008 | Reply

    I think NADRA is doing well in maintaining the cNIC and voters list should also be compiled by the same in order to avoid such problems.

  3. By Farid on Feb 20, 2008 | Reply

    Good idea, and a good suggestion for voting.
    Let see what is decided..

  4. By Fayyaz on Feb 20, 2008 | Reply

    This is interesting. I was not in Lahore on the election day but my family told me that my and my wife’s name was in the voters list.

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