The document discusses electoral reforms in Pakistan. It provides background on elections in Pakistan and outlines several recommendations to improve the electoral process, including establishing clear timelines for nomination procedures, ensuring impartial returning officers and election commission members, allowing overseas voting, using electronic voting machines cautiously, stopping discriminatory voter lists, providing a "none of the above" option, limiting candidates to one constituency, and strengthening monitoring of election expenses and results.

2.  Raheema Azhar
 Burhan Abdul Waheed
 Shafique Aftab
 Awais Khan
 Umer Farooq

4. The preamble of the Constitution of the Islamic
Republic of Pakistan 1973 states

5.  ELECTION :
An election is a formal decision-making process by
which a population chooses an individual to hold public
office by voting.
 Why we need elections?
 By constitution, country should be run by elected
persons.
 To choose best leaders for the country.

6. Background :
Election process was introduced by
 UK parliament
 Scottish Parliament

7. Procedure:
 Voters:
Voters cast their votes to elect candidates.
 Political Parties :
A political party is an organisation that seeks to
influence, or control government policy, usually by
nominating candidates in elections.
 Independent candidates:
An independent candidate is a person who wishes to
stand for election and is not chosen by a political party.

8.  Returning Officers :
The Returning Officer is the official who is
responsible for how the election is run and declares the
result.

9.  Last elections were held on 11th may 2015, after about
66 years of independence
 Highest number of people cast their votes in 2013
elections, about 55% of total voters.
 Still there were allegations of rigging by many parties.

10.  ECP is responsible to conduct Elections in Pakistan.
 We have 12 recommendations for Electoral reforms in
Pakistan.

11. ELECTORAL ROLLS:
 Under electoral rolls, ECP issues list of voters and their
place of voting.
 Voter should only be allow to cast vote in the area
which is mentioned on their ID cards as Present
address.
 It will make the process easy as ECP would not require
to verify their addresses manually.

12. Separate polling days:
 Voting should be held in different phases throughout
the country, rather then in one day.
 This will allow Law enforcement agencies to provide
better security environment to all voters.
 It will also reduce the chances of rigging .

13. Nomination and Scrutiny:
 Scrutiny of the candidates is
very important.
 Corrupt or criminals should
not be allow to take part in the elections.
 Scrutiny should be serious and based on facts, not like
previous election in which Returning officers asks
questions like.. Do you believe in Honeymoon? Do you
have Girlfriend? Have you ever eaten pork?

14. Overseas voting:
 Almost 70 million Pakistanis are living oversees.
Sending important remittances back to the country.
 They should have right to vote to elect the future
leadership for the country.
 It will also raise their interest in the political system of
Pakistan. So ECP should take steps regarding that.

15. Formation of the ECP:
 Chief election commissioner must be a non political
and unbiased person.
 Members of ECP should have proper training
regarding the elections.
 ECP should have more authority to punish the
candidates who breaks the rules of election by any
mean.

16. Electronic voting:
 Many countries in the world, are using electronic
voting machines nowadays.
 Election commission should also use electronic voting
machines which can help to reduce the rigging.
 But ECP should also make sure that Electronic voting
machines are not prone to hacking and other cyber
attacks.

18. Election expenses:
ECP should take following steps to make sure that
candidates don’t spend more money than the limit set by
ECP :
 Establish monitoring cells
 Hold weekly meeting with candidates
 Conduct random inspections

19. Appointment of RO’s and DRO’s :
 RO’s and DRO’s should not have political background
in any case.
 There should be no pressure on them by any person.
 They should held personally liable for any kind of
rigging under their supervision.

20. Timelines:
Election commission should clearly state the timelines
for following procedures:
 For filling of nomination papers.
 For scrutiny process of candidates.
 For appeals against decisions made by ECP.
 For decisions against appeals.
 For Final list of candidates.

21. Supplementary list on the FER:
 Under the election order 2002 name of some non
muslims could be addes into Supplementary list, other
than joint electoral list.
 This practice should be stopped because its not right
to discriminate voters on religious beliefs.
 It also discourage non muslim voters to cast their
votes.

22. None Of The Above(NOTA):
 In many countries this
option is given to the voters.
 ECP should also provide this option to the voters in
Pakistan.
 It will help to increase the voter turn out as voters who
don’t like any candidate will also come out to exercise
their vote.

23. One constituency per candidate:
 In Pakistan, many candidates take part in elections
from more than one constituency.
 ECP should discourage this practice.
 If person won more then one seats he has to retain
only 1 seat and resign from others, so it takes lot of
resources to conduct re elections.