Expats can’t vote abroad, says ECP

[The_Jinx]

Re: Expats can’t vote abroad, says ECP

@Amal

I am sure the ECP must be thinking about putting in place a stereotype system for which they found the remain time was not enough. Pakistan has diplomatic presence in almost every country with huge apparatus, manpower and funding. It is mind-boggling as to why balloting arrangements cannot be done. The ECP should have consulted international tech firms to come up with an out-of-the-box solution for allowing voting from abroad. If Curiosity can send videos from the Mars, why we cannot cast votes from the max distance of a few thousand kilometers?

A simple soultion could have been web based. I can not imagine any expat not having Internet access abroad.

Register the voters based on NICOP ID’s and emails. The constitunecy and candidates can also be defined for each NICOP id holder by their parmenent address in Pakistan. So, when they log in, they have only choices for their own constituency. Make the voting similar to anonymous Poll and make the result readily available for that. You can set the time limit of the poll too… All can be done officially from the local consulate/embassy website, or from ECP website or a dedicated website for such purposes with enough bandwidth. This is the simplest of the solutions. Seriously. There can not be any rigging in this since total number of expats are displayed and each vote is only given by logging through one valid NICOP id.