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Summary The ECP staff will start door to door verification of the voters list today.
NADRA had provided the Election Commission with voters’ lists of over 800 million people and a door-to-door campaign to verify the identity of the draft electoral rolls.Over 200,000 verifying officials would conduct the verification exercise across the country. The electoral rolls have already been distributed in 130 districts. The country has been divided in into 140000 census blocks.After the verification process the voters’ lists will be handed over to NADRA and the final lists will be issued in March. A voter would be allowed to cost his vote at either his permanent or temporary address but NADRA’s unique identification system would make it impossible for individuals to cast dual votes.Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has also decided to introduce water marked ballot papers aiming to eliminate fraudulent voting and the Printing Corporation of Pakistan had been asked to print water marked ballot papers.
