ECP may not use electronic, biometric machines in 2018 polls
(WorldNews Pakistan)

ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Secretary Babar Yaqoob Fateh Muhammad has indicated that electronic voting machines (EVMs) and biometric verification machines will not be used in the 2018 general elections. Sharing details of the test run of BVMs in the recently held by-election in Lahore´s NA-120 constituency at a press briefing here on Friday, he disclosed that fingerprints of 12 per cent voters could not be read by the machines. He said the number of voters at the time of the next general elections would reach around 100 million. `If...