Ordinance issued for procurement of e-voting machines - Pakistan
• ECP authorised to seek technical help to enable overseas Pakistanis to cast their votes • Govt confident of securing parliamentary nod to ordinance within 120 days • ECP warns of serious repercussions if law is passed in haste ISLAMABAD: In what appears to be a hasty move, the government on Saturday promulgated a presidential ordinance authorising and binding the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to procure electronic voting machines (EVMs) and to enable the overseas Pakistanis to exercise their right to vote while staying in their country of residence in the next general electi...