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More than 90pc Form-45 not signed by polling agents

Fakhar Durrani

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ISLAMABAD: It is official now that over 90 percent Form-45 displayed on the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)'s website do not bear the signatures of the polling agents.

Although the ECP spokesperson has admitted that many Form-45 have not been signed by the polling agents, according to him it was not a requirement of the Form-45 as there was no space for polling agent’s signature. However, the Section 90 (12) of the Elections Act 2017 clearly says that the presiding officer shall obtain signature of the polling agent on the form.

The Section 90 (12) of the Elections Act 2017 says, “The Presiding Officer, after preparation of the Result of the count and the Ballot Paper Account, shall sign them and obtain thereon the signatures of the senior-most Assistant Presiding Officer and an accredited observer, a candidate or his election agent or polling agents as may be present in token of the said documents having been prepared in their presence and if any such person refuses to sign it, the Presiding Officer shall record a note on the result of the count and the ballot paper account to that effect.

The News examined Form-45 of around 12,000 polling stations across the country to determine whether the vote count forms have been signed by the polling agents or not. In order to examine the data of Form-45, The News randomly selected sample data of 110 National Assembly constituencies and examined around 12,000 polling stations’ results. During the examination of this data, it was found that not even a single constituency has 10 percent signed Form-45 of the total polling stations. During the examination of these Form-45 a unified pattern of unsigned Form-45 was found controversial and uncontroversial.

The constitutional expert like Abid Hassan Minto, Pildat’s head Ahmed Bilal Mehboob and former secretary Election Commission Kunwar Dilshad have termed this exercise a major irregularity of elections 2018. According to Ahmed Bilal Mehboob if true this needs to be investigated by a Commission and the ECP must be held accountable on this major failure.

ECP spokesman while talking to The News says that there was no space for signature of polling agents on Form-45. “If you look at the content of the Form-45 there is no place for polling agent’s signature. Actually there was no requirement of the signature on that form that’s why the signatures of the polling agents were not obtained. However, the signatures of polling agents were obtained on Tamper Evident Bags — the bags which were used for transmission of results”, says the spokesman.

When asked if it wasn’t necessary, why some presiding officers obtained the signatures. The ECP spokesman replied that although there was no space for the signatures, some conscious presiding officers took signatures to fulfill the process.

When reminded the ECP spokesman that it is clearly mentioned in the Elections Act 2017 that presiding officer shall obtain the signature, he said the presiding officer might not be aware of the Elections Act that’s why they did not obtain signatures on Form-45.

The News selected 110 constituencies randomly including some controversial constituencies to examine their Form-45. However, during the process of examination a unified pattern (unsigned Form-45) was found nationwide constituencies. For example during the process of examination of NA-8 Malakand it was found that the Form-45 of only 15 polling stations out of 328 were signed by the polling agents. The remaining 313 polling stations sent the result without the signatures of polling agents. These 15 polling stations include PS 323, PS 317, PS 294, PS 288, PS 275, PS 254, PS 240, PS 220, PS 206, PS 201, PS 135, PS 113, PS 58, PS 41 and PS 11.

The News contacted one of the Presiding officers from this constituency who did not obtain the signature of the polling agent. According to this presiding officer, who requested not to mention his name for the sake of his security that due to delay in counting process the polling agents left the polling station at the time of completion of result of count. He said the counting process was completed at 9:30pm and by that time the polling agents had already gone to their homes.

It is pertinent to mention here that at that specific polling station, the polled votes were less than 300. When the presiding officer was asked how much time it requires to count less than 300 votes, he said it takes time and there was no other reason for not obtaining the signature of the polling agents.

During the process of examination of another constituency NA-18 Swabi, the presiding officers of around 37 polling stations cited the reason that the signatures of polling agents could not be obtained because they left for their homes before the completion of the process of Form-45. The presiding officers of almost 9 polling stations obtained the signatures of the polling agents. It is important to mention here that NA-18 had almost 283 polling stations.

Similarly, Punjab province’s first constituency NA-55 Attock has around 493 polling stations but the presiding officers of only 13 polling stations obtained signatures of the polling agents and the rest of 480 polling stations’ result is unsigned. These polling stations include PS 56, 66, 190, 197, 200, 212, 235, 245, 251, 263, 288, 311 and PS 329.

In another constituency of Punjab which is being considered most controversial -- NA-131 Lahore --, 24 out of 245 result of count Form-45 are signed by the polling agents and the remaining 221 Form-45 are unsigned. The polling stations which sent signed Form-45 include PS 7, 8, 13, 27, 43, 54, 56, 63, 65, 67,69, 70, 94, 97, 103, 109, 111,114, 145, 151, 155, 156, 206 and PS 228.

NA-108 Faisalabad is also one of the constituencies where the contesting candidates challenged the result. As per the data, only 24 out of 312 polling stations have sent signed Form-45. The remaining 288 polling stations result is unsigned. The signed Form-45 polling stations include PS 16, 17, 21, 22, 24, 25, 34, 36, 42, 52, 77, 79, 81, 94, 96, 100, 192, 206, 207, 252, 277, 294, 296 and PS 302.

Similarly, some interesting facts found during the examination of Form-45 from Sindh’s constituencies. For example NA-213 Nawabshah where former president Asif Ali Zardari contested elections has only one signed Form-45 out of 387 polling stations.

The data of Form-45 from NA-246 Liyari shows that only two Form-45 were signed by the polling agents. There were total 244 polling stations, the remaining 242 polling stations sent unsigned results.

In another constituency NA-249 Karachi where Shahbaz Sharif contested the elections, 23 out of 257 polling stations sent signed results. The remaining polling stations’ result was unsigned. The polling stations with signed result include PS 1, 9, 27, 28, 30, 36, 37, 39, 47, 62, 89, 92, 113, 115, 120, 159, 173, 177, 184, 213, 239, 240 and PS 257.

In one of the constituency in Balochistan NA-257 it was found that only six out of 138 polling stations’ result were signed by the polling agents and the remaining 132 polling stations result were unsigned. The polling stations with signed result include PS 17, 34, 45, 55, 122 and PS 125. Similarly during the examination process of one of the constituencies in Quetta it was found that only four out of 156 polling stations’ result was signed by the polling agents. The polling stations with signed results include PS 3, 47, 129 and PS 135.

Senior Constitutional expert Abid Hassan Minto believes that anyone can raise questions on the results if the signatures of polling agents are missing. According to him the presence of polling agent during the counting process is necessary and the presiding officers must have obtained the signature of the agent.

Ahmed Bilal Mehboob terms this exercise a major irregularity. According to him this is a huge irregularity and the Election Commission must be held responsible for this failure. He demanded constitution of a Commission to probe this irregularity.

“I am quite amazed that even the winning candidate has not signed the Form-45. Normally the polling agent of losing candidate avoids to sign the result because in this condition the signature on Form-45 means accepting the result. However if it is a unified pattern that both the winning and losing candidates’ agents have not signed the Form-45 then it raises some serious question which needs to be probed,” commented Ahmed Bilal Mehboob.

Kunwar Dilshad, ECP former secretary says if true this is one of the major irregularities of elections 2018. According to him this is a clear violation of Elections Act 2017 and the presiding officers must be held responsible for this irresponsibility
 
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Form 45 was of utmost important since all parties political parties agents make sign on it so that no one in later stage could have cried foul , I see wasteful activity done by ECP and created one of the most controversial elections
 
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PMLn and PPP should take a principled stance and do not take oath.... But I remember a grand total of 17 people from PPP+PMLn+ANP+MMA+GDA gathered in front of the ECP and all leaders of the parties did not even both to attend...just sent their puppies to bark for a few minutes and entertain the people.
lol there was no place for a signature yet a signature is required which idiot made this form
ECP team selected by PMLn.
 
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ECP team selected by PMLn.

the more and more incompetence i see i realize the people who voted for pmln are the real idiots because these people aren't fit for running a sabzi dukaan let alone a country this incompetence should be dealt with the death penalty this is blatant betrayal with Pakistan
 
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I am sure whoever lost their polling agents wouldn't have signed the form, this type of fair conduct is unattainable in Pakistan in foreseeable future.
 
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@Norwegian let me clear this bro ive been a part of the election process myself and it was not mandatory for the polling agents to sign the form 45...the only thing required by the polling agents to be signed was the tamper evident plastic packets which had to be filled with form 45 and 46 and these packets had to be deposited with the respective returning officers
 
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Only for low IQ *** lickers of pml n like you.

For rest of the world, these elections were far better than previous ones :lol:
Usage of words are finest banner of your upbringing kiddo.
On Topic,*** licking and boot licking of different Politicians and there parties is meant for guys like you,so do this bidding for PTI,PMLN,PPP etc.
Rest assured selective purging of single political party on corruption related charges and granting others a free hand was enough to tell that election was rigged but idiots like you can't see what's written on wall,rest read what i have posted below that for soothing your rear.

خان صاحب ایماندار ہیں
(جہانزیب راضی)
آپ یقین کرلیں کہ خان صاحب ایماندار آدمی ہیں ۔ عمران خان وہ واحد سیاستدان ہیں جو 62 ، 63 پر پورا اترتے ہیں ۔ اگر آپ کو یقین نہ آئے تو آپ ان کے امیدواروں کی فہرست اٹھا کر دیکھ لیں آپ کو اندازہ ہوجائیگا ۔ ان امیدواروں میں 62 ایسے ہیں جنکا تعلق مسلم لیگ (ن) سے ہے اور 63 کا تعلق پیپلز پارٹی سے ہے ۔لیکن اس سے کوئی فرق نہیں پڑتا ہے کیونکہ خان صاحب ایماندار ہیں ۔

میاں صاحب والے ہی کیس میں نااہل ہونے والے جہانگیر ترین ، 2005 میں مشرف ، 2008 میں ق لیگ ، 2013 میں پیپلز پارٹی اور اب 2018 میں تحریک انصاف کے ” حق گو ” ترجمان فواد چوہدری صاحب کی موجودگی ، بطور پاکستانی سب سے زیادہ آف شور کمپنیز رکھنے والے علیم خان ، ای – او – بی – آئی جیسے ادارے کو کھا کر ڈکار تک نہ لینے والے اور 400 ارب روپے سے زیادہ کی کرپشن میں ملوث نذر محمد گوندل ، ندیم افضل چن جیسے ” ایماندار ترین ” لوگوں کی تحریک انصاف میں شمولیت اور بطور امیدوار اپنے حلقوں میں موجودگی کے باوجود مجھے پورا یقین ہے کہ کوئی فرق نہیں پڑتا کیونکہ خان صاحب ایماندار ہیں ۔

فردوس عاشق اعوان جیسی ” پوتر ” اور ” مادر ملت ” خاتون کا خان صاحب کے ساتھ کرسی لگا کر بیٹھنا ، ” محافظ ختم نبوت ” اور اس ملک کے “سنجیدہ ترین” انسان عامر لیاقت حسین کا 245 کراچی سے قومی اسمبلی کے ٹکٹ پر کھڑا ہونا اور اشرف جبار جیسے ” لینڈ گریبر ” کے ساتھ ہونے کے باوجود میرا ماننا ہے کہ لیڈر دیانتدار ہونا چاہیئے ۔

غلام مصطفی کھر جیسے 82 سالہ ” لڑکے ” پرویز خٹک جیسے یوتھ کے ” نمائندے ” اور دوست محمد کھوسہ جیسے ” ہینڈ سم اسمارٹ بوائے ” کو ٹکٹ دینے ۔ محض 180 دنوں میں 20 کروڑ سے زیادہ کی چائے انڈیل لینے والی خیبر پختونخواہ کی حکومت ۔ لیڈر ایماندار ہو تو ٹیم میں کرپشن کرنے کی جرات نہیں ہوتی جیسے ” ایمان افروز ملفوظات ” کے ساتھ 5 سال بعد 21 صوبائی اسمبلی کے ارکان کا صرف ڈھائی اور تین کروڑ روپے میں بک جانے کے باوجود میرا مان ہے کہ خان صاحب کرپٹ نہیں ہیں ۔

5 سال تک اپنے حلقے میں شکل تک نہ دکھانے اور اب رکشہ چلا چلا کر غریبوں کا مسیحا بننے والے دندان ساز عارف علوی صاحب کی صداقت اور دیانت کے باوجود کہ 57 تولے سونے کی قیمت محض ساڑھے تین لاکھ روپے ، انکے ڈینٹل ہاسپٹل کی مالیت صرف ڈیڑھ کروڑ روپے۔ دھوراجی سوسائٹی میں زوجہ محترمہ کے نام ایک سادہ سا بنگلہ صرف 30 لاکھ اور اسلام آباد کے مہنگے ترین علاقے میں اپارٹمنٹ گیارہ کروڑ کا ہے ۔ بہرحال میرا عارف علوی سے کچھ لینا دینا نہیں ہے لیڈر ایماندار ہونا چاہئیے۔

آپ کمال ملاحظہ کریں ۔ اسلام آباد کے پہاڑی علاقے میں 15 ہزار گز پر مشتمل ” سادگی کا نمونہ ” خان صاحب کے ننھے سے بنی گالہ کی قیمت ایک کروڑ 14 لاکھ روپے ہے ۔ میرا خیال ہے کہ اگر خان صاحب واضح کردیتے کہ یہ ہندوستانی روپیہ ہے یا پاکستانی تو خاصی آسانی ہوجاتی ۔ خیر ملک بھر میں 14 پراپرٹیز کی قیمت 3 کروڑ دس لاکھ سے ذرا زیادہ ہے۔لیکن ان سب میں مجھے خان صاحب کی جو ادا سب سے زیادہ پسند آئی وہ یہ کہ وہ ایک ” بے کار ” آدمی ہیں یعنی ” غربت اور افلاس” کی وجہ سے اب تک ایک بھی گاڑی نہیں خرید سکے ہیں ۔ خان صاحب کی سالانہ آمدنی 17 لاکھ ہے ۔ ہاں یہ علیحدہ بات ہے کہ ” مخیر حضرات ” کے تعاون اور اللہ کے فضل و کرم سے وہ عمرہ ڈیڑھ کروڑ میں کر آتے ہیں ۔لیکن اس کے باوجود مجھے یقین ہے کہ خان صاحب ایماندار ، دیانتدار ، صادق اور امین ہیں ۔

میں نے رسول خداﷺ کہ یہ حدیث سنی تھی کہ ” آدمی اپنی صحبت سے پہچانا جاتا ہے “۔اب مسئلہ یہ ہے کہ خان صاحب ایک ایماندار آدمی ہیں اور صحبت ان سے زیادہ ” ایماندار ” ہے ۔ویسے تو ہم نے اپنے بزرگوں سے یہ بھی سنا ہے کہ ” اگر ایک صاف ستھرے سیب کو گندے سیبوں میں رکھ دو تو وہ اچھا والا سیب بھی سڑ جاتا ہے “۔ لیکن مجھے یقین ہے کہ بڑے بزرگ غلط کہتے تھے کیونکہ تب تک وہ خان صاحب سے نہیں ملے تھے ۔

جن چوروں کو چوراہوں پر لٹکا نا تھا خان صاحب نے اپنی پارٹی کو ان سے لٹکادیا ۔ لیکن پھر بھی میں دل سے اس نئے پاکستان کے انتظار میں ہوں جس کے لئیے ہر اصول ، ہر ضابطے اور اپنی 22 سالہ جدوجہد کو خان صاحب نے ایسے قربان کردیا کہ ہر لوٹے اور کرپٹ لوگوں کے لئیے اپنے دروازے چوپٹ کھول دئیے ۔ خان صاحب روک سکیں تو روک لیں کہیں یہ تبدیلی آپ کو ہی تبدیل نہ کردے اور آپ بھی میاں صاحب کی طرح پوچھتے پھریں ” مجھے کیوں نکالا ؟”۔

Exactly that's how pmln got 80 plus seats despite the worst performance in past 5 years
I second on that,how PTI was able to win using same bastards and there families,who were in Government for many decades,and later switched sides and did became part of PTI?
 
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Exactly that's how pmln got 80 plus seats despite the worst performance in past 5 years

even wonder why RTS .... system failed????????? .... the real pourpose of failure,,, timing of failure,,,

who benifitted from this,,,,,,,,, who was keen to intridouce it,???

which servers were attcked,( cyber attack)... from where?

i guess we will never know.....
 
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