{"id":45980,"date":"2024-08-23T18:58:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T13:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=45980"},"modified":"2024-08-23T18:59:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T13:59:19","slug":"pattans-recent-audit-report-shows-massive-irregularities-in-election-2024-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pattans-recent-audit-report-shows-massive-irregularities-in-election-2024-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Pattan&#8217;s recent audit report shows massive irregularities in election 2024 results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pattan-Coalition 38, an umbrella of civil society organizations that monitors elections, democracy, and many more, has released an audit of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/check-complete-elections-2024-ecp-announced-results\/\">February 2024 election<\/a> results, claiming that after Lahore, fake result forms and unprecedented gerrymandering were found in Sindh and KPK.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Huge gaps between national and provincial turnouts in certain constituencies exposed the moral and ethical bankruptcy of polity and governance and are likely to haunt Pakistan and its people for a long time,&#8221; the audit report said.<\/p>\n<p>In the General Election 2024 results audit, Pattan-Coalition 38 claimed,\u00a0\u201cA robust audit of the result forms of General Election 2024 that were available on the ECP\u2019s website determines the nature of the institution and its professional standards. Unfortunately, ECP only managed to prove the allegations of its brazen partisanship and glaring incompetence \u2013 a blatant violation of Article 218 of Pakistan\u2019s Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pattan-C38, citing overseas Pakistanis residing in the UK and the USA, wrote that they could not visit the Election Commission\u2019s website as it was blocked. &#8220;Barring access to its website, the ECP is not only violating the Constitution, and Elections Act but also its \u201cguiding principles\u201d that it had set up under its Strategic Plan,&#8221; the audit report added.<\/p>\n<p>Pattan and Coalition-38 audits focused on five major indicators to measure the material impact on election outcomes. The five indicators include the exceptional difference in turnouts between national and associated provincial assembly constituencies at a significantly high number of polling stations, last-minute changes in polling schemes without informing candidates and the public, splitting of polling stations of associated provincial assemblies across multiple national assembly constituencies, discrepancies and concealments within and across election result forms, and tampering of figures in form-45s.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Pattan report, the investigations of these indicators in its current audits of six national constituencies and earlier findings in some of the most prominent constituencies have revealed the nature and scale of rigging and manipulation that had helped the establishment to achieve the \u201cpositive\u201d results in General Elections 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The current audit report of Pattan-C38 covered six national constituencies including three from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Peshawar, Buner, and Haripur), and one each from Sindh (Karachi), Punjab (Lahore), and Balochistan (Pishin).<\/p>\n<h2>NA-242 Karachi (Keamari-I)<\/h2>\n<p>National Assembly constituency NA-242 (Karachi) shows evidence of an excess of 36,000 votes compared to the associated provincial turnout and issued ballot papers. In contrast, the difference between the winning and runner-up of the constituency is half of it, e.g. 18,000. While the overall voters\u2019 turnout was 44 percent at 285 polling stations. At 36 polling stations, turnout exceeded 90% and a difference of more than 500 votes was recorded in 45 polling stations each.<\/p>\n<p>The winner in nearly all polling stations with unusually high turnouts was \u2018incidentally\u2019 the returned candidate &#8211; Mustafa Kamal of MQM-P. Like NA-128, the NA-242 too was spread over four provincial constituencies covering only one of them completely. At the same time, the two shared merely one-third and one-fifth of polling stations and voters, respectively \u2013 a nagging disregard for the principles of delimitations of constituencies under Section 20 of the Election Act.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1JIdjacEq0AnL77RECiWgBN9Sl6RnngK9\/preview\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>NA-127 (Lahore-11)<\/h2>\n<p>Patten-C38 in its audit report alleged that NA-127 (Lahore), where Ata Tarar of PML-N was declared winner, is a distinct example of maladministration of the electoral process through manipulations in electoral results, gerrymandering of constituencies\u2019 delimitation and ballot rigging.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The constituency was spread over four partial provincial constituencies, PPs-157, -160, -161, and -162, in the preliminary delimitations. However, the polling stations of another provincial constituency (PP-163) were attached to the polling scheme close to the polling day without following any lawful procedure,&#8221; the report added.<\/p>\n<p>When examining the data, Pattan said, it was discovered that hundreds of form 45s and form 46s, which are the basic documents for preparing the election results of a polling station, were either not posted, found incomplete, or illegible, obscuring the vital information for audits and transparency.\u00a0 Such discrepancies cannot be disguised and are bound to draw attention towards the manipulations of election results at every level, it added.<\/p>\n<h2>NA-265 (Pishin)<\/h2>\n<p>Sharing the election result audit of NA-265 (Pishin), where Molana Fazal Ur Rehman was declared winner, Pattan-Coalition 38 claimed, it suffered even more from the incompetency of ECP as the entire data of hundreds of polling stations of the two associated provincial constituencies are missing from the ECP website, thus making it impossible to cross-check empirically and draw any conclusion of fair and free elections as it raised apprehension of concealment and large-scale manipulations of election results at a later stage.<\/p>\n<h2>NA-28 (Peshawar 1)<\/h2>\n<p>NA-28 (Peshawar) is perhaps one of the most prominent constituencies where extensive manipulations of election results were carried out, the report maintained. Here Pattan&#8217;s audit found that 95% of polling stations are those where the number of polled votes of national and the associated provincial seats are different. &#8220;On 81% of polling stations, the polled votes for the national constituency is more than 100 votes. In 26 polling stations NA-28, the turnout is more than 90% of registered voters, 8 of which are showing even 100%. More than seventy-nine thousand (79,000) extra votes were added which closely compares the margin of victory for Mr Noor Alam, of more than seventy-three thousand (73,000),&#8221; the report wrote.<\/p>\n<h2>NA-10 (Buner) and NA-18 (Haripur)<\/h2>\n<p>According to the election monitoring group,\u00a0the audit of election results forms of NA-10 (Buner) and NA-18 (Haripur), as available on the ECP website, found no serious discrepancies or irregularities in election results as can be seen from the attached statistical tables.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The comparison of polled votes and issued ballot papers was found consistent across national and its associated provincial constituencies, apart from some sporadic variations that do not significantly impact the election outcomes and votes secured by the winners and runners-up,&#8221; it added. &#8220;The overall turnout for NA-10 and NA-18 was 37 percent and 50 percent respectively which was closely comparable across the respective associated provincial constituencies. Mr Gohar Ali Khan and Omar Ayub were declared, respectively in NA-10 and NA-18.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The audit used the same unbiased procedure that PATTAN had applied in its earlier cases to examine the electoral results posted by the Election Commission on its website. These results validate the accuracy of the audit methodology and the findings of serious violations of Pakistan\u2019s Constitution (Article 218) and the Elections Act 2017 in constituencies reported earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pattan-Coalition 38, an umbrella of civil society organizations that monitors elections, democracy, and many more, has released an audit of February 2024 election results, claiming that after Lahore, fake result forms and unprecedented gerrymandering were found in Sindh and KPK. &#8220;Huge gaps between national and provincial turnouts in certain constituencies exposed the moral and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":45983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13446,2],"tags":[20769,20768,20770],"class_list":["post-45980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-pakistan","tag-pattan","tag-pattan-election-results-audit","tag-pattan-coalition-38"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45984,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45980\/revisions\/45984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}