All Telecom companies has made agreement with Election Comission and NADRA for voters verification through SMS and now the service is launched by Election Commission of Pakistan. This technology has various advantages like voter could get all the information regarding his/her vote within seconds. This service would minimize the possibility of errors in the Final Electoral Rolls. Apart from the display centres, this service could be considered as Virtual Display Centres where the voters sitting anywhere in the country, be able to check his/her vote’s detail.
In order to protect the privacy of a voter, the name, parentage and home address would not be shown in the SMS.
In Case of any registeration Issue:
In case of any issue, the concerned should reach their district election commissioner to get his/her details corrected.For the purpose, Election Commission is also arranging the establishment of display centers where voters can go an check their details and to get the information corrected.
Note: Reply message is likely to have words in Urdu (unicode). You may not be able to read the text message if your phone doesn’t support unicode.
Proecure of Voters Verification:
- Simply send your CNIC (without ‘-’ dashes) to 8300
- Example: Send “42201XXXXXXX1” to 8300
The reply you receive will include:
- Your CNIC Number
- Electoral Area
- Block Code
- Serial Number
Charges:
Each SMS send to 8300 are charged at Rs.2 only.
