DIRECTIONS OF THE ELECTION COMMISSION REGARDING MOBILE PHONES DURING POLLING.
Islamabad, the 8th May, 2013.- In order to ensure smooth and transparent conduct of polls at the polling stations and to safeguard against any manipulation of the polling process by the use of mobile phones at the polling booths, the Hon’ble Election Commission has decided that each presiding officer shall ask the voter if he is carrying a mobile phone. In case the answer is affirmative, the presiding officer shall direct the voter to place the mobile on his table and thereafter, ballot paper will be issued to the voter who, after marking the same in screened off compartment, will insert his folded ballot papers in the ballot boxes and only then the mobile of that voter will be returned to him. It has been further decided that if a voter refuses to hand over his mobile to the presiding officer, he may not be given the ballot paper.
All the District Returning Officers, Returning Officers and Presiding Officers have been informed for strict compliance.