Election Commission is considering new ways to enlist voters after a Supreme Court order and complaints millions of citizens are missing from draft electoral lists, a senior government official said on Monday. After allegations of rigging in the 2002 election.
President Pervez Musharraf is under mounting international pressure to ensure polls due later this year are fair and free, but controversy has already propped up over the draft voters' list unveiled in June.
"The commission will meet on Wednesday to discuss a strategy and... modalities in the light of the Supreme Court's orders to ensure inclusion of voters missing in the list," the commission's Secretary Kanwar Muhammad Dilshad told Reuters. Controversy over electoral lists surfaced after officials released a provisional list of around 52 million eligible voters, 20 million fewer than for polls five years ago.