Election Commission Sets Up Desk For Registering Voters

Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published August 29, 2017 | 08:50 PM

The District Election Commission Rawalpindi has set up a desk to facilitate the people to get them enlisted in the voters list and get corrected any errors in the voters list for the 2018 election

RAWALPINDI, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 29th Aug, 2017 ) : The District Election Commission Rawalpindi has set up a desk to facilitate the people to get them enlisted in the voters list and get corrected any errors in the voters list for the 2018 election.

The main task is to create awareness among the voters about the importance of their vote and to ensure maximum turnout of the people, said a press release here Tuesday. The commission will provide necessary information to the people and a Google map will provide all information regarding polling station, basic information for casting of vote.

The Commission will take steps to ensure high turnout. District election commissioners Bakhtiar ul Mulk and Mohammad Naeem, during a 'meet the press' programme here, said the people could get their Names registered in the voters list and form A was available at the Election Commission Office.

They said the people must get themselves registered at the earliest as it was their national obligation.

They said the Commission would start a campaign at union council level in urban areas and at tehsil level in rural areas for the people, especially for womenfolk, to get registered.

They said registered female voters were less in number but according to the census women comprised a sizeable figure in the country's population. Naeem Ahmad said the Commission would start a special drive to increase the number of women voters in the rural areas.

While bringing issue in the notice of NADRA officials, he said they should send teams in the rural areas and issue computerized national identity cards to unregistered women so that they get their right to vote in the general elections. He urged the people to help the Election Commission in its campaign to ensure maximum participation in the 2018 general election.