Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Jan invited the opposition to sit down with the government on Saturday to discuss electoral reforms, including the implementation of an electronic vote, which would restore “credibility” to the voting process after the controversial elections premises on Friday in Karachi, in which the opposition Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) claimed victory.

“Despite the low turnout, all parties are crying and saying that the results have been manipulated,” said Jan, before proposing the integration of an electronic vote to guarantee the transparency of future elections.

The prime minister has given the example of the US elections in November, in which the defeated Donald Trump was unable to present a credible allegation of manipulation thanks to the use of electronic voting. “Thanks to the use of this technology, not a single irregularity was found. That is why we are asking the opposition to cooperate with us and help reform our current electoral system,” he explained on his Twitter account.

In contrast, the vice president of the Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) and one of the country’s most prominent opposition leaders, Maryam Nawaz, has responded to Jan that if the victory was transparent, no political party should have problems. to carry out a count.

“The margin of victory is a few hundred votes and the number of rejected votes exceeds this margin. To ask for a recount with a difference of less than five percent is our legal and constitutional right,” he declared.

Source: dpa

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India continues to work on the innovation of its voting system which will be assisted by the blockchain platform and it will allow the population to vote from outside their provinces of origin.

The news became official in The Wire newspaper after the chief election commissioner, Sunil Arora, announced that the research with the popular technology was already a project that had been developed for some time and it is presumed that the tests will be launched in the very near future.

Secure form of verification

According to information provided by the source, the Election Commission of India worked closely with researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, in order to securely create a mechanism to verify identity and allow the people to vote from remote regions of the country and beyond.

According to the explanation offered by the former Deputy Senior Elections Commissioner, Sandeep Saxena, the voting process will be carried out through personalized electronic ballots generated by the blockchain, once the respective verification of the voter has been carried out.

“Once the system establishes a voter’s identity, a blockchain-enabled personalized electronic ballot will be generated. When the vote is cast, the ballot will be securely encrypted and a blockchain hashtag generated. This hashtag notification will be sent to various stakeholders or the candidates and political parties,” Saxena said.

K. Villarroel

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