{"id":300816,"date":"2022-12-13T09:42:30","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T04:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=300816"},"modified":"2022-12-13T09:42:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T04:42:30","slug":"polling-agent-must-be-voters-of-same-constituency-ecp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/polling-agent-must-be-voters-of-same-constituency-ecp\/","title":{"rendered":"Polling agent must be voters of same constituency: ECP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> ISLAMABAD<br \/>\nThe Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has made it mandatory for the polling agents to be voters of the same constituency in the coming elections.<br \/>\nAccording to the recent amendment in election rules made by the ECP ahead of the general elections, a political party can now nominate a polling agent for any booth within the constituency he\/she is a voter from.<br \/>\nThe ECP had announced that polling agents for the next general elections shall be the voters of the respective constituencies.<br \/>\nIt said no candidate shall appoint any polling agent from outside the constituency. The case related to the polling agents in the by-elections in 20 constituencies of Punjab came before the Election Commission.<br \/>\nThe ECP had rejected the PTI\u2019s request against the position of the returning officers regarding polling agents being from the respective constituencies. It is believed that the ECP took the decision to avoid any violence on polling day. There would be a likelihood of violence if voters from outside the constituencies were allowed to join the election activity as polling agents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has made it mandatory for the polling agents to be voters of the same constituency in the coming elections. According to the recent amendment in election rules made by the ECP ahead of the general elections, a political party can now nominate a polling agent for any booth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-300816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Polling agent must be voters of same constituency: ECP<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/polling-agent-must-be-voters-of-same-constituency-ecp\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Polling agent must be voters of same constituency: ECP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ISLAMABAD The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has made it mandatory for the polling agents to be voters of the same constituency in the coming elections. 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