ECP traces 37m bogus votes

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ECP traces 37m bogus votes

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Election Commission of Pakistan has traced 37 million bogus votes in new voter lists.

24 September,2011 07:16 pm

ECP said 18.3 million bogus votes have been struck off the old lists, 9.7 million have been rejected as bogus votes in Sindh, 2.7 million in Balochistan and 4.6 million in Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa.The ECP said 50% of the votes in FATA and Balochistan could not be confirmed.It has been discovered that over 37 million votes in the new voter lists are suspicious. In Punjab 8 million votes could not be verified while the figure was 5.98 million in Sindh.Islamabad had 1.5 million unconfirmed votes while in FATA the number of such votes stands at 7 million.Over in Balochistan 2.7 million votes could not be confirmed.