PRESS RELEASE

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Islamabad the 6th October 2015

The Election Commission of Pakistan is pleased to announce the successful experiment on the use of Android based mobile application for electronic transmission of polling stations result (Form-XIV) directly from 61 polling stations to ECP’s central server in Islamabad in the bye-election of PP-16 (Attock-II) held on 6th October 2015.As soon as Form-XIV was compiled by the Presiding Officer at the polling stations, the electronic copy of the same was made available on ECP central server with proper time stamping and location mapping.

This exercise will bring more transparency in result transmission process. The use of mobile technology will certainly not only give transparency but also increase the overall efficacy of the process of result declaration and its transmission.