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ISLAMABAD, (APP): The Election Commission of
Pakistan (ECP) has fixed September 5th as the last date for receipt
of applications for postal ballot papers for by elections in
National Assembly Constituency, NA-162 Sahiwal-III.
According to a notification issued here on Friday, the
facility, under the law, has been extended only to the persons in
government service, members of armed forces, holders of public
offices, their wives and such of their children as are registered
voters and ordinarily reside with them provided they are stationed
at a place other than the place in which their home constituency is
situated.
Persons detained in prison or held in other custody are also
entitled to vote by postal ballot.
The last date for postal ballot application for polling
personnel and police personnel as are posted at a polling station
other than one at which they are entitled to cast their vote, has
been fixed as September 9, 2016.
Persons who are appointed to act as presiding officers,
assistant presiding officers and polling officers and police
personnel who are assigned duties at the polling stations, can apply
for postal ballot by September 9, 2016 by which time their
appointments as polling personnel are expected to have been
finalized and the fact of their appointment indicated to them.
Applications for postal ballot should be submitted on the
prescribed form with the Returning officer concerned of the
constituency.
Applications forms for postal ballot can be obtained from the
said returning officer.
The voters to whom postal ballots are issued will not be
entitled to vote in person at the polling stations.