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India-Pakistan
Why 7 votes for Yousaf Raza Gillani rejected?
2021-03-13
[DAILYTIMES.PK] Sadiq Sanjrani, the PTI-led government’s candidate, has won the Senate chairman election over Yousaf Raza Gillani.From the upper house, 98 senators exercised their right to vote today, out of which seven votes were rejected.

7 votes cast for Yousaf Raza Gillani were rejected because stamps were not placed on the ballot paper correctly.

The votes were rejected by the presiding officer, Syed Muzafar Hussain Shah, as the ballot papers the stamp was on the candidate’s name instead of the box next to it.



Posted by:Fred

#1  On the one hand, this is the exactly sort of niggling technicality (see what I did there?) that annoys and frustrates every person who seeks honest justice.

On the other hand, this is the exactly sort of niggling technicality (see what I did there? Again!) that is put in place to thwart every person who seeks honest justice.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-03-13 08:43  

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