Counting of Votes Begins : Is It Rigging Time?

By The Pakistani Spectator • Feb 18th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics, Worth A Second Look • (1,029 views) • 5 Comments

Rigging is not done during the polling. Simply because a huge numbers of voters remain present at the polling stations, people remained charged up there the whole day. Media personal also keep their spot light on the voters and the polling process. Police, rangers and other security officials also remain vigilant during the vote casting. As soon as the polling ends, the voters, workers and security officials sense no rigging, and most of them scatter in order to wait for the results or simply to do other works, or to shed their tiredness.

This is when the invisible hands get activated. These mainly comprised over the “compromised” presiding officers at the selected polling stations. These presiding officers compile the results, and replace the actual copy of results with the already prepared copy, which shows the defeated candidate winning that polling station. This practice is repeated on the crunch and selected polling stations, and these resultant copies are then blended with the true copies from other polling stations in the constituencies. And when the result is aggregated, due to the rigged results at crunch polling stations, the defeated candidate wins.

With this process, candidates, voters and observers; all observe no rigging at all throughout the polling day. Changing results by a small percentage at a few critical polling stations produces the desired results against the will of the people and an unpopular government is placed in power.

The riggers must keep in their thick skulls that a vote rigged in favor of the unpopular government could spark violent unrest, and the restive situation is very dangerous for Pakistan at this critical juncture.

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5 Responses to “Counting of Votes Begins : Is It Rigging Time?”

1
Rubab Says:
February 18th, 2008
Musharraf has already told you who will be the victor
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Kashif Riaz Says:
February 18th, 2008
Daka raat ko paray ga. Hoshyar.
3
Saba Ali Says:
February 18th, 2008
Rigging would prove very detrimental to the integrity of country. Allah Save us all.
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Prof. Armughan Khan Says:
February 18th, 2008
yes, you have provided a detail account of this oft-used method of rigging. In Pakistan, in all the previous elections, post-poll rigging has been done in fashion. That is why PML-Q facilitated the mass transfer of presiding staff months before elections. They also changed the local SHOs and we all know Nazims are also there.
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Talal Hussain Malik Says:
February 18th, 2008
Many incidents of ballot papers being snatched have been reported. What if many ballots were distributed to Mushy’s cronies earlier, someone who can so confidently tell the election result beforehand?