Secrecy of the ballot | Special Report
In its current form, Article 226 of the Constitution explicitly provides for secret ballot On February 6, the president of Pakistan promulgated the Elections Ordinance, 2021. This amendment aims is to make provincial legislators vote by a show of hands in the Senate elections, rather than through secret ballot —as mandated by Article 226 of the Constitution. Whether such a change is permissible is a legal question pending before the Supreme Court. A pertinent question in this regard is whether the people desire such a change in the election process for the Senate? John Stuart Mill, in Cons...