Youth Manifesto 2012 190912

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YouthManifesto2012Fair & Free ElectionAuthor: Ushna Ahmed (YP59-SINDH11)Free and fair elections are extremely vital to Pakistan, not only to strengthenthe concept of Democracy, but also to restore the faith of Pakistani citizens onthe Election Commission of Pakistan and its procedures. Youth believes thatengagement of people in the electoral process is crucial for ensuring asustainable and well functioning Government and In order to achievetransparency in election process, following steps must be undertaken:1. Political parties, and their fielding candidates, should be made to declaretheir assets a certain period of time before the elections at all costs.These assets declaration documents should be made public on theinternet and in civic centres.The ECP should keep a firm check whetherthe candidates are spending money beyond the limits fixed by electorallaw. If so, they (candidates) must be held accountable by the ECP.Insteadof providing transport to the voters to get them to the polling station,number of polling stations should be increased, and well-spaced, so apolling station would be present close to a person's residence.2. The ECP should make sure that the voters are registered at a polling boothclose to their permanent residence.3. The voters should be informed of their polling stations by letters by theECP, so that they don't have to interact with the political polling agents forthis purpose.4. The election commission should be given administrative powers, underSection 9 of the Election Commission Order 2002, to ensure a conflictfree election using law enforcement agencies, as they please. Anindependent neutral election monitoring body should also be set up at thepolling booth to monitor and educate.5. The polling staff and presiding officer should be educated of their duties,rights and powers. As should be the police, as mentioned in the sections6 and 8 of Election Commission Order 2002.6. A photo voter list should be introduced to virtually identify the voters aswell.7. Electronic voting should be introduced, which would be checked by thepublic to ensure them of its authenticity. In this way, invalid and doubtfulvotes would be eliminated, and the process of counting of votes would beaccelerated.8. A finger-print identification machine should be used in the polling booth toensure the person's identity, and guarantee that the same person wouldnot vote in any other polling booth.Since the majority of the votes would be of the youth in Pakistan, in order toencourage them to vote, seminars should be conducted by the ECP in variousuniversities and colleges. To target the rural youth, a door to door campaigncould be initiated by the Election Commission.The total voter turnout in the year 2008 was merely 19.5%. Thus the winningparty, PPP, didn't even have the support of the majority of Pakistan, as the31
YouthManifesto2012majority didn't even vote. This low voter turnout has severely dismemberedDemocracy in Pakistan. If the elections are conducted as free and fair, thevoter turnout will consequently increase. Immediate steps would have to beto give the ECP their due power as mentioned in the election commissionorder 2002. The bogus votes have to be curtailed using any measurepossible, such as electronic voting and finger-print identification.The electronic voting would also speed up and make transparent the countingprocess, removing rigging from there. They buying of votes, and the bullyingand political pressurization must be eliminated using law enforcementagencies by the election commission. A direct contact is to be establishedbetween the election commission and the citizens of Pakistan for informationand education, so that the people don't have to resort to political pollingagents for assistance. Finally educating the masses of their right and duty tovote is crucial to encourage a democratic proceeding, where majority is theauthority.32
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