Former justice Fazlur-Rehman said, "The ECP has designed a policy of one man for one vote on the basis of genuine computerised national identity card, besides using thumb sign technology through Nadra. Due to this process, no one will be able to cast fake vote in elections".
He said that new computerised electoral voter lists had been compiled and now it was the responsibility of people to know registration of their names as voters in the lists. He said the data of electoral lists would be submitted at offices of data registration officers. After the passage of 18th Amendment, the ECP had become a powerful and independent institution with the appointment of permanent members, he added.
He said the ECP had increased a number of polling stations following orders of the Supreme Court. Any person, who wanted to get him or her registered as a voter, he or she could download relevant form from the ECP website, he added. He said the ECP had taken measures to ensure use of CNIC in vote casting, presence of photo of voter in presiding officer's electoral lists, thumb sign on ballot paper, use of special paper in the ballot paper that is not available in market and implementation of code of ethics.
The ECP Additional Secretary said the ECP would dispatch an objectionable ballot paper to Nadra to check the thumb sign and verify its genuineness. He said voters, including women, would apply their thumb impression on the ballot papers in order to put a halt to counterfeit vote casting. He said that presiding officer would be given powers of first class magistrate during three days of elections and the security personnel deployed at the polling stations would be bound to his / her obey orders.