ECP Fixes Date For Bye-election Postal Ballot Papers Applications

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 15th Mar, 2017 ) : The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has fixed April 3 as last date for receipt of applications for postal ballot papers for bye-election to the provincial assembly of Punjab constituency PP-23 Chakwal-IV.

According to ECP, this facility, under the law has been extended only to the persons in government service, members of armed forces, holders of public offices, their wives and such of their children as are registered voters and ordinarily reside with them provided they are stationed at a place other than the place in which their constituency is situated.

It added, persons detained in person or held in other custody are also entitled to vote by postal ballot.

The last date in this behalf for such polling personnel and police personnel as are posted at a polling station other than one at which they are entitled to cast their vote, has been fixed as April 11, 2017.

Similarly, persons who are appointed to act as Presiding Officers, Assistant Presiding Officers and Polling Officers and Police Personnel who have been assigned duties at the polling stations, have been advised to apply for postal ballot by April 11, 2017 by which time their appointments as polling personnel are expected to have been finalized and the fact of their appointment indicated to them.