There are more than 65 thousand prisoners in 43 prisons of the province, only 1500 prisoners exercised their right to vote through postal ballot.
One and a half thousand prisoners, including PTI founder Imran Khan and Shah Mehmood Qureshi, cast their votes, the election commission will release the results of the prisoners' votes. According to the media, there are more than 65,000 prisoners in 43 jails across Punjab, only 1,500 of them exercised their right to vote through postal ballots.
PTI founder Imran Khan and Shah Mehmood Qureshi are among the prisoners who cast their votes. According to IG Prisons Mian Farooq Nazir, out of more than 65,000 prisoners in 43 prisons of the province, only 150,000 prisoners exercised their right to vote through postal ballot.
A letter was written by the Election Commission to the IG Prisons Punjab to cast the votes of the prisoners in the jails.
Only 1,500 prisoners who exercised their right to vote were registered. Superintendent Jail has completed the process of voting from the prisoners under the supervision of cameras and the postal ballot papers have been sent to the Election Commission, the results of the votes of the prisoners will be released by the Election Commission. On the other hand, according to the news agency, the Election Commission has established an "Election City" equipped with modern technology and equipment for fast delivery of election results of 855 constituencies of national and provincial assemblies, and an alternative website in case of any failure. has been prepared.
The Director of Information Technology in the Election Commission, Mohammad Khizr Aziz, while briefing the media, said that the Election Commission has established an "Election City" equipped with modern technology within the Secretariat, from where the media can receive the results of 855 constituencies without interruption and immediately. Can be done. He said that a comprehensive strategy has been formulated for receiving election results through WhatsApp, email and fax.
The Election Commission has also created an alternate website to ensure uninterrupted delivery of results. He said that the Election Management System (EMS) will work in the unavailability of internet, this system has been linked to satellite communication in areas where there are connectivity issues. He informed that the EMS consists of two parts in which initially the results will be taken by the presiding officer through photographs which form.
45 will be sent to the Returning Officer, if there are connectivity issues, the results will be sent through offline modules. Presiding Officers of all constituencies are directed to take a photocopy of Form-45 and send it to their respective Returning Officer, the Returning Officer will compile the results on Form-47 and release it to the media. He said that a media wall has been built outside the office of each returning officer to share the results, while five media walls have been built in the election city of the Election Commission, where the results of the national and four provincial assemblies will be updated continuously.