Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (PCSIR) has divulged very important irregularities in Election 2013.
According to PCSIR, the major irregularities are as follows
- Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) officials were unaware of expiry limit of the magnetic ink.
- ECP staff was not given training to use this ink.
- Magnetic ink’s validity time was maximum for 6 hours.
- Ink packets opened before commencing polling i.e. 9 o’ clock in the morning had already expired by 2 pm.
- ECP officials were unaware of the expiry limit of the ink, according to PCSIR officials.
- PCSIR has also revealed that polling staff was not trained properly to use magnetic ink.
- The Returning Officers (ROs) did not know the difference between magnetic ink and the common ink.
- 2 packets of magnetic and common ink were sent to all polling stations.
