Facebook partners with ECP to support electorate for General Election 2018
Social media height Facebook is now assisting electorate in Pakistan brand their constituencies and make certain their votes are registered.
Over 33 million Pakistanis actively use a platform, according to an estimate.
In partnership with a Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), a amicable media height that hosts over 2.19 billion users opposite a world, is notifying users in Pakistan to safeguard their votes are purebred by a cocktail adult in their news feed.
“Are we purebred to vote? Text your CNIC to 8300 to make certain that you’re purebred to opinion in a election. SMS fees might apply,” reads a notice.
Voters can now find their polling hire by SMS: ECP
You can send a content summary to 8300 with your NIC series to accept a residence of your polling station
Clicking on a cocktail up redirects we to a ECP’s website where additional information about a electoral routine is accessible for a assistance of voters.
Earlier this month, Facebook had collaborated with a sovereign physique to safeguard a reserve of users during a choosing season.
Guide: How to opinion on Jul 25?
Step 1: When we arrive during your designated polling counter or station, between 8am and 6pm, a polling officer will check your inhabitant temperament card. Please make certain we are carrying a strange one and not a copy. Once, a officer identifies your sequence series and name, as listed in his/her electoral roll, your name will be crossed out and your ride noted with memorable ink.
Step 2: The officer will take your ride sense on a counterfoil of a list paper. Thereafter, a partner presiding officer will stamp a paper for a inhabitant (green) and provincial public (white) constituencies and pointer it.
Step 3: Once we are privileged to go into a polling booth/station, that is when we will expel your vote. Please make certain we pitch clearly and resolutely on a pitch of a claimant we support.
Step 4: Drop a immature phony list paper in a box with a immature lid and white paper in a box with a white lid. That’s it! You are finished sportive your right to vote.
Further instructions
· Other documents, besides a CNIC, will not be accepted.
· Polling officers are educated to give priority to profound women, a disabled, comparison and transgender citizens.
· Ensure we expel your opinion in finish privacy.
· Mobile phones and cameras are not authorised in a polling stations.
· When a polling time ends (6pm), usually those electorate inside a polling hire will be authorised to continue voting.