"Had EVMs Been There...": Pakistan President Amid Delay In Poll Results
NDTV
Pakistan poll body is yet to release the results for every constituency, around seventy-two hours after the elections.
Pakistan President Arif Alvi expressed his frustration on Saturday over the postponed election results and stated that if the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) had been in use during the general elections on February 8, the nation would not be facing this current crisis, Geo News reported. Remember 'our' long struggle for Electronic Voting Machines. EVM had paper ballots that could be counted separately by hand (like it is being done today) BUT it also had a simple electronic calculator/counter of each vote button pressed. Totals of every candidate would have been…
Despite the commission's lofty claims, the Election Commission of Pakistan's (ECP) new Election Management System (EMS) failed, he said.
Notably, the election regulator has yet to release the preliminary results for every constituency, nearly seventy-two hours after the polls closed.
