How EMS will ensure fail-safe polling results
Pakistan
The system designed by a private company can work without internet connection
ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) – The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has developed a modern Election Management System (EMS) to provide election results on the polling day.
The software designed by a private company will work even without the internet connection.
The system developed with a huge cost of Rs320 million will be used only on the election day, carrying data of Forms 45 and 47 after completion of the election process.
There will be three operators in each provincial assembly constituency and four for the national assembly constituencies.
Every returning officer will be given a laptop and Nadra officials will also be present to feed the data in the system. The laptops will be operating in offline mode on a local area network (LAN).
The system will be displaying results through multimedia to the public at prominent places by laptops.
The presiding officers will be sharing results with the returning officers over mobile phones and submit the results by themselves.
The ECP has dismissed concerns about risk of EMS hacking.
