{"id":73068,"date":"2018-07-23T21:10:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T16:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=73068"},"modified":"2018-07-23T21:10:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T16:10:02","slug":"ecp-explains-valid-invalid-vote-on-election-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=73068","title":{"rendered":"ECP explains valid, \u00a0invalid vote on election day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Islamabad, July 23 (TNS): The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has explained what would count as a valid or an invalid vote when the country goes to the polls on Wednesday, says a press release issued by electoral body.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter addressed to presiding officers, the ECP listed down the requirements that a ballot paper would have to meet in order to be included in the counting process.<\/p>\n<p>The watchdog, in its instructions, said that a ballot paper will be termed invalid if:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>it&#8217;s missing the official code mark or assistant presiding officer&#8217;s signature<\/li>\n<li>it&#8217;s missing the ECP&#8217;s watermark<\/li>\n<li>it&#8217;s missing the official nine-matrix seal<\/li>\n<li>it has a paper or anything else attached to it<\/li>\n<li>it has stamps on more than one candidate&#8217;s election symbols<\/li>\n<li>it appears equally in more than one candidates&#8217; boxes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The ECP, however, added that a stamp which appears in multiple boxes but a prominent portion of which is in favour of a particular candidate, will be counted as a valid vote.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple stamps on the symbol of a particular candidate, as well as stamps on both the symbol and the name of a candidate will also be counted as valid votes, the ECP explained.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the ECP released a notification informing voters, polling staff and political parties of\u00a0actions that would constitute as crimes\u00a0on election day and would fall under the jurisdiction of the district returning officers.<\/p>\n<p>Asking a voter who they voted for, spoiling ballot papers or stamps in any way, taking a picture of the ballot paper are some of the actions that would land the offender in jail for upto three months, result in fines upto Rs100,000, or both.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Islamabad, July 23 (TNS): The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has explained what would count as a valid or an invalid vote when the country goes to the polls on Wednesday, says a press release issued by electoral body. In a letter addressed to presiding officers, the ECP listed down the requirements that a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73069,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73068\/revisions\/73069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}