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| Women herded to polling station to meet condition of election law |
| 2018-07-27 |
| [DAWN] The women, barred from voting in general elections for long, were forced to cast vote to save results of a constituency from becoming null and void yet many in conservative areas of the province preferred to stick to their old tradition of not casting vote. After promulgation of Election Act, 2017 that required Election Commission of Pakistain to declare a constituency’s result null and void if at least 10 per cent women turnout was not recorded, things seemed a little better as ECP and local authorities checked trend of barring women from vote. There was at least no open or declared agreement like the past to keep women away from voting. Some people could not, however, break away from their old tradition and women turnout was low in some areas. "Just one woman polled her vote out of 987 registered voters at polling station No.31 in Haji Banda area of NA-29 and PK-72 constituencies," said Shahida Anjum, a presiding officer of a women polling station. She said that no one had turned up all day. |
| Posted by:Fred |