On Tuesday, Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan was presented with a demonstration of a state-of-the-art two-way electronic voting machine at the PM Office in Islamabad.
According to details, the proposed e-voting machine, which is being used in many countries around the world, produces soft and hard copies of the ballot paper to ensure transparency in the electoral process.
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This year in February, Ministry for Science and Technology announced that the National Institute of Electronics (NIE), in collaboration with the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) and COMSATS University, had indigenously developed an e-voting machine.
Earlier this month, Federal Minister for Science and Technology, Fawad Chaudhry, had presented PM Imran Khan with a demonstration of the e-voting machine.
The Science and Tech Minister had claimed that the locally-made e-voting machine will put an end to rigging and ensure impartiality and transparency during the general elections.
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Since assuming power, Prime Minister Imran Khan has been making efforts to introduce an e-voting system before the next general elections to ensure impartiality and transparency.
In November 2020, PM Imran had announced electoral reforms for free and fair elections in the country. The reforms included an e-voting system for general elections, open balloting through a show of hands during Senate elections, and allowing overseas Pakistanis to cast their votes.
