Islamabad
February 10, 2008: The
Pakistan Peoples Party has
expressed shock over the
electronic manipulation of
forthcoming polls and warned
that it brought into
question the sanctity of
elections as it rendered
vote counting more decisive
that vote casting.
The Party’s
Election Commission made a
comparative analysis of 2002
and 2007 electoral lists and
was shocked to find out the
massive decrease in the
registered votes and
disproportionate increase in
over thirty constituencies.
According to
the study huge number of
votes simply disappear in
some and huge numbers are
added to voters lists in
several other constituencies
that tilt the ground against
the PPP.
Releasing the
figures today the PPP IT
Advisor Tariq Malik said
that votes had decreased in
the following five
constituencies in (2007
electoral lists) and asked
where the eligible voters
had vanished.
|
Constituency No. |
Constituency
Name |
Reg. Voters 2002 |
Reg. Voters
07/2008 |
Difference |
|
| |
|
NA-206 |
LARKANA-III |
255723 |
148797 |
-106926 |
|
|
NA-225 |
BADIN-II |
297393 |
215648 |
-81745 |
|
|
NA-269 |
KHUZDAR |
252902 |
186598 |
-66304 |
|
|
NA-154 |
LODHRAN-I |
325493 |
260489 |
-65004 |
|
|
NA-155 |
LODHRAN-II |
328640 |
272022 |
-56618 |
|
On the other
hand there are 26
constituencies in which
approximately 100,000 (per
constituency) votes were
added. Four in NWFP and
Punjab each, 16 in Sindh and
2 in Balouchistan saw a
sharp increase of
approximately 100K votes!.
The details are as under:
|
Constituency No. |
Constituency Name |
Reg.
Voters 2002 |
Reg.
Voters 07/2008 |
Difference |
|
NA-1 |
PESHAWAR-I |
233907 |
387083 |
153176 |
|
NA-2 |
PESHAWAR-II |
216587 |
314904 |
98317 |
|
NA-20 |
MANSEHRA-I |
327352 |
437390 |
110038 |
|
NA-21 |
MANSEHRA-II |
310360 |
424569 |
114209 |
|
NA-64 |
SARGODHA-I |
329423 |
429937 |
100514 |
|
NA-66 |
SARGODHA-III |
282701 |
408823 |
126122 |
|
NA-149 |
MULTAN-II |
316900 |
427253 |
110353 |
|
NA-150 |
MULTAN-III |
287894 |
399931 |
112037 |
|
NA-204 |
LARKANA-I |
275041 |
374076 |
99035 |
|
NA-219 |
HYDERABAD-II |
236225 |
352079 |
115854 |
|
NA-221 |
HYDERABAD-IV |
223681 |
326862 |
103181 |
|
NA-226 |
MIRPURKHAS-I |
261129 |
354831 |
93702 |
|
NA-231 |
DADU-I (JAMSHORO) |
340793 |
500064 |
159271 |
|
NA-232 |
DADU-II
|
277302 |
389341 |
112039 |
|
NA-233 |
DADU-III |
329858 |
438433 |
108575 |
|
NA-237 |
THATTA-I |
329639 |
428846 |
99207 |
|
NA-248 |
Karachi-X |
225479 |
351345 |
125866 |
|
NA-249 |
Karachi-XI |
250626 |
388099 |
137473 |
|
NA-250 |
KARACHI-XII |
205400 |
344657 |
139257 |
|
NA-251 |
KARACHI-XIII |
210491 |
337193 |
126702 |
|
NA-253 |
KARACHI-XV |
249365 |
423284 |
173919 |
|
NA-256 |
KARACHI-XVIII |
261912 |
371383 |
109471 |
|
NA-257 |
KARACHI-XIX |
256535 |
386376 |
129841 |
|
NA-258 |
KARACHI-XX |
263393 |
418663 |
155270 |
|
NA-262 |
KILLA
ABDULLAH |
265538 |
391769 |
126231 |
|
NA-266 |
NASIRABAD |
493722 |
651356 |
157634 |
He said that
the PPP candidates belonging
to these constituencies
suspected a lot of
duplication in these lists.
Tariq Malik
said that the analysis
revealed the 5000 bogus
votes in Shaheed Mohtarma
Benazir Bhuttos
constituency.
They were
identified consequent upon
the display of draft
electronic lists. They were
promised to be removed by
the concerned officer of the
Election Commission at
Larkana. However, in the
final list recently supplied
the very names subsist.
‘Obviously, such votes would
be utilized for illegal
purposes by the
manipulators’ he suspected.
Similar reports are coming
from Balouchistan, Punjab
and NWFP.
He said that
the Party also found a lot
of duplicate votes in some
constituencies. NA-1 is
reported to have about 16000
duplicates. While running ID
Cards and registered votes
tests, it was found in some
instances there are multiple
votes registered against one
ID card. In one instance an
ID card showed more than 10
votes registered against it.
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