Online voting

Published July 22, 2018

THE government seems to have failed in keeping the elections fair. The recent announcement of the deployment of army troops at the polling stations leaves no hope of preventing election-rigging.

Authorities patronising a few candidates is blatantly visible. There is a possibility people could be compelled to vote for a particular party. To make the elections free and fair the government should introduce online voting systems. Virtually everything is online now, why cannot the same be done for voting?

Nasir Khan
Swat

Published in Dawn, July 22nd, 2018

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