Source: ET
Sonu Khan Baloch named new K-P election commission chief.
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday shuffled provincial election commissioners for three provinces.
According to the sources in the commission, heads of the election body were shuffled in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and Sindh.
After the shuffle, K-P Election Commissioner SM Tariq Qadri has been transferred to Punjab. His vacant post has been filled by Sonu Khan Baloch, who till recently was heading the election commission’s Sindh office.
This shuffle will have good impact. If Chief of Electional Commission is planning to introduce some good things prior to forthcoming elections, can probably examine following suggestion also which is a novel idea of Ms Yasmeen Ali who is a prominent law expert and also the author of “A Comparative Analysis of Media & Media Laws in Pakistan”
“Currently ballot paper does not allow the masses to exercise the right to vote in its true spirit resultantly nation sees the same ‘electable’ the same faces,the same names. Time has refused to weed out such elements . It is therefore suggested, addition of another icon/slot to choose by voters.It should be:NONE OF THE ABOVE. A straight 50% of votes caste on NONE OF THE ABOVE option, should disqualify contestants from that particular constituency for 10 years, confiscate their security,parties must put up new candidates for the constituency,elections to be held on another date with new candidates.It is believed, employing this codicil will go a long way in choosing representatives, in the spirit of the Constitution.”
None of the Above (NOTA), also known as “against all” or a “scratch” vote, is a ballot option in some jurisdictions or organizations, designed to allow the voter to indicate disapproval of all of the candidates in a voting system. It is based on the principle that consent requires the ability to withhold consent in an election, just as they can by voting no on ballot questions.Entities that include “None of the Above” on ballots as standard procedure include Greece (λευκό, white, but unrelated to a political party of the similarly sounding name-however it is symbolic only), the U.S. state of Nevada (None of These Candidates), Ukraine (Проти всіх), Spain (voto en blanco), and Colombia (voto en blanco). Russia had such an option on its ballots (Против всех) until it was abolished in 2006. Bangladesh introduced this option (না ভোট) in 2008.