Abstract
Credibility of General Elections in less-stable developing countries has
mostly remained a bone of contention. State machinery or political parties are
held responsible for election related violence/irregularities/systematic
manipulations/rigging. In Pakistan, after general elections of 2013, a number of
political parties demanded electoral reforms, including the introduction of
Electronic Voting Machines (EVM)/ Biometric Voting System (BVS), to limit
opportunities for election rigging. Several academic studies, conducted by private/
non-institutionalized members or political activists on the subject of Electoral
Reforms, propose the use of Biometric Verifications and Electronic Voting.
However, keeping in view the ground realities the Election Commission of
Pakistan pointed out that, it lacks the capability/capacity to support such an
initiative due to technological and technical limitations. Those constraints include
enormous cost of induction, maintenance and reliability of machines, connectivity
issues in far flung areas and non-availability of mega speed servers to support the
massive two-way data-flows, in a speedy, effective and uninterrupted fashion,
giving expeditious results of the voters’ identification/ verification. Clearly, such a
situation poses serious challenge to an apparently effective and smart looking
solution, when put to test on ground.
Asma Shakir Khawaja, Hasan Jamal. (2016) Implementing Biomatric Voting System In Pakistan: An Anaytical Review, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, Volume 53, Issue 2.
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