Pakistan Votes: Recognize the power of your VOTE

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Pakistan Votes is an apolitical campaign asking Pakistanis to either cast one's vote or to void one's vote. The underlying philosophy of the campaign generates from the fact that the 2008 electoral list hosted 40 million ghost voters (multiple entries, voters registered without authentic identification). Bogus votes get casted under the pretext of unverified voters and also under the names of those who fail to show up.

In 2008, roughly 35 million votes were casted. The voter population of Pakistan is ~ 80 million. Some quick math, if we remove the 40 million bogus voters from the 2008 electoral list, we're left with 40 million 'genuine' voters. Now out of those 40 million, 35 million casted their votes. A 90% voter turnout? Really? Here's the real question, how many rigged votes were casted using ghost votes or even under our names because we were no-shows? 10 million? 20 million? 30 million?

Do you like being taken advantage of? Haven't you had enough? Come election time, if there's no candidate you'd like to vote for, then go to the polling booth regardless and make your vote void (how do you void a vote -- simple -- select multiple candidates on your ballot! Did you seriously need to be told how it's done?). Pakistan Votes is not in for the "video hits/likes" -- all the campaign seeks is that you act responsibly by protecting your vote. And this isn't a one time effort, Pakistanis have to vote every time there are elections, every single time. We must stop rigging, we must stop our votes from being misused. The system has to be detoxed, there's no quick fix, let's begin cleaning our mess.

The initiative is not backed by any sponsorships, or any political agenda. It is purely youth driven. A grand total of PKR 5,000 was utilised on this effort.

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