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| 21 January 2004 | Wednesday | 28 Ziqa'ad 1424 |
Electoral rolls: last date for filing of claims extended
ISLAMABAD, Jan 20: The Election Commission extended on Tuesday the last date for filing of claims, objections and applications for corrections in the electoral rolls up to Jan 31, 2004.
An announcement by the Election Commission said the decision had been taken at the request of a number of political parties and to facilitate the eligible voters to file with the revising authorities claims for inclusion of their names, objections for deletion of entries and applications for correction of entries in the electoral rolls.
The revising authorities will continue disposal of claims, objections and applications for corrections received by them simultaneously. The EC explained the procedure for receipt of claims, objections and applications for corrections in the electoral rolls which is as under:
Every claim for the inclusion of a name in the electoral roll of an electoral area should be filed either in person or through an authorized agent with the revising authority, registration officer or assistant registration officer concerned.
Every objection to any entry or entries and every application for correction of any particular or particulars relating to an existing entry or entries in the draft rolls should be lodged with any of the above-mentioned officers by the objector/applicant in person and not through an agent. The women may, however, file their claims, objections or applications for corrections of their particulars in the rolls through an authorized agent.
Every claim, objection or application for correction should be filed during office hours on all working days. In case a claim, an objection or an application for correction is sent by post, it should be addressed to the revising authority concerned and to no one else and it should reach the revising authority on or before the last day fixed for the filing of claims/ objections/ applications.
It should be clearly understood that no person is entitled to refer an objection to the inclusion of any name in the electoral roll unless his name appears in the electoral roll of that area. In other words, the objector should be the voter of that electoral area (Rule 10(3).
The claims, objections and applications for correction should not be received in bulk from an individual or a political party. No stamp, judicial or non judicial, is required to be affixed on such claims, objections and applications. In addition to the revising authorities, the registration officers and assistant registration officers have been authorized to receive claims, objections and applications for corrections so as to facilitate the filing thereof without much inconvenience to the public. They are, therefore, advised to remain present in their office during the period. While receiving claims, objections and applications for corrections, the registration officers and assistant registration officers should ensure that if claims/objections/applications pertaining to the areas falling outside the jurisdiction are received by them inadvertently, they should arrange to pass on the same to the revising authority concerned immediately.
The registration officers and assistant registration officers should directly forward without any delay, for disposal, all claims, objections and applications to the appropriate revising authority, along with the relevant registers preferably, or with a statement (in duplicate) containing the serial number of the case and the date of its filing. The revising authority should, after appending his signature as a token of receipt against the relevant entries in the register concerned or on a copy of the statement return the register or the copy of the statement, as the case may be, to the registration officer/assistant registration officer. The register should, in no case, be retained by the revising authority so that its completion does not remain held up with the registration officer/assistant registration officer.
The registration officers/assistant registration officers will give the serial number of the claim, objection or application and the date of its receipt as entered by them in their relevant registers, on the right hand corner of the first page of such claim, objection or application.
The revising authority will, however, on receipt thereof, enter them in his own register in accordance with the serial number of his own register but the date will be the one on which the claim, objection or application was presented to or received by the registration officer/ assistant registration officer. The same serial number and date will then be inserted in the relevant portion of the claim, objection or application by the revising authority.
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