INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Here is how you will cast your vote in Elections 2018Pakistan is all set to hold General Election on July
polling station to vote, the Presiding Officer shall issue a ballot paper to the voter after satisfying himself about his identity and
shall, for that purpose, require him to produce his original National Identity Card issued by the National Database and Registration
Authority.(2) For the purpose of verification of the identity of a voter, the Commission may adopt such other technology as in its opinion
may prove effective, including bio-metric verification system, in addition to the National Identity Card mentioned in sub-section (1).(3)
Failure of a voter to prove his identity through the new technology shall not disentitle him to cast his vote if he is otherwise entitled so
record on the counterfoil of the ballot paper the number of the voter on the electoral roll, the number of the National Identity Card of the
Officer shall obtain the thumb impression of the voter on the space provided on the electoral roll for the purpose against the photograph of
counterfoil or, as the case may be, on the space provided for the purpose on the electoral roll against his photograph or whose thumb bears
or who already bears such a mark or traces of such a mark.(6) If a contesting candidate or his election agent or polling agent alleges that
a voter to whom a ballot paper is about to be issued already has one or more ballot papers in his possession, the Presiding Officer may
require the voter to satisfy him that he does not have any other ballot paper in his possession and may also take such measures as he thinks
fit to ensure that such voter does not insert more than one ballot paper in the ballot box.(7) On receiving the ballot paper, the voter
mark on the ballot paper at any place within the space containing the name and symbol of the contesting candidate for whom he wishes to
without undue delay and shall leave the polling station immediately after he has inserted his ballot paper in the ballot box.(9) Where a
voter is blind or is otherwise so incapacitated that he cannot vote without the assistance of his companion, the Presiding Officer shall
allow him such assistance and thereupon such voter may, with such assistance, do anything which a voter is required or permitted to do under
