Polling Station info will be included in Vote Verification Service
We informed you previously that Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in association with NADRA and cellular operators had launched the Vote Verification service.
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By utilizing this service, effective from 1stMarch, 83.2 million Pakistani voters can verify their vote status by just sending SMS for their mobile phones.
Recently, we also informed you that approximately 4.5 million citizens have verified their records of vote by utilizing this service.
ECP has decided to make this service more effective and name of polling station would also be included in SMS reply in future.
This will provided voters an ease in casting votes as they can have the knowledge where he/she would cast vote.
The analysts are of the of the view that NADRA and ECP should have incorporated this (polling station) information at the launch of the service, as customers will have to repay for vote verification SMS service to know about their polling station.
Further details on how to verify vote status are available here.
Those with any objections in voters’ status can contact 50,000 display centers, specifically established for corrections.
Tariq Malik, Deputy Chairman National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), told APP that Mobilink, being the largest mobile phone operator is leading in term of checking vote verification through SMS, as around 1.44 million eligible voters have utilized its network.
Telenor is second as far as using the particular service is concerned. Around 1.282 million voters have so far checked the status of their votes through its network.
Ufone is third in a row with 980,072 SMS, Warid with 448,438 and Zong with 392,816.
