Hyde
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- Elections should be conducted on phase to phase basis. For example different zones might be established to monitor election at macroscopic level. One example is to divide each province in 5 units and conduct elections in each unit on a different day. It is similar to Indian-elections formula but slightly more intense
- Day 1-2) South Punjab
- Day 3-4) North Punjab
- Day 5-6) East Punjab
- Day 7-8) West Punjab
- Day 9-10) Central Punjab
- Day 10-15) 5 zones in K-P
- Day 15-25) 5 zones in Sindh
- Day 25-40) 5 Zones in Balochistan
- E-voting
- Electronic machines should be introduced (perhaps 200,000 might be required)
- The machines need to be thoroughly tested out to ensure it cannot be hacked, altered or modified and use the best technology possible currently available in the world
- The technology would ideally be able to capture the footprints of hacker if the machine was ever attempted to be altered in anyway.
- E-voting must be introduced in bi-elections to test out all the pros and cons before the general elections
- The machine should be simple to use so the common man can easily understand it
- There should be widespread advertisement in both television and print media before the general elections so the common already knows how to use this machine
- There can be extra-practice room for common man if need be where they can be taught about how to use the machine before they are allowed to go into the room for casting their vote. The symbols in the practice machine must not be identical to the symbols of the political party and the sole purpose is to get them familiar with the machine
- There should be finger-print verification system built within the machine since Nadra holds the record of every ID card holder in Pakistan
- Presiding Officer & Staff
- The procedure of choosing presiding officer must be taken after building consensus amongst the political parties
- The duty of presiding officer must be split in 4 hour shift instead of 36 hours of sleepless day-n-night work they are engaged these days with each presiding officer reporting 1 hour earlier before his shift begins
- Staff needs to be fully trained
- Staff need to carry out election day's practice sessions in similar-original-like demo before the real election day so they are fully aware of their responsibility
- Since its going to be over a month activity and split from constituency to constituency I believe the availability of presiding officers, staff and all the concerned parties will be easy to arrange
- Representation from each political party must be based in the polling station as well as the presence of Army and security agencies if need arises. The idea is to ensure that every vote that is being polled can be traced by the political party. They should be able to count the number of votes being polled but cannot have access to the records of voting-machine / ballot papers of course
- So imagine if we have 272 constituencies (of National assembly) where the elections are held in Pakistan (if you take away reserved seats) - Imagine you have elections in only 15 constituencies per day. The whole procedure must end in 28 days only but ensure transparency in far better manner and each constituency can be monitored by every political party in more transparent manner as they will have a time to do so.
- The safety of ballot boxes must be ensured
- All ballot boxes / records for electronic voting opens after the elections have been conducted in every national and provincial constituency
Your opinion is highly appreciated, feel free to add more suggestions into it. This is my personal opinion so you are free to criticise
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