Challenges and Failures of Pakistan’s 2018 General Election Result Transmission System (RTS)

1 · Saif Khan · Oct. 13, 2020, 10 p.m.
On July 25 2018, one-fourth of Pakistan’s total population (and more than half of registered voters) went to polls to mark the second ever peaceful democratic transition of power in Pakistan’s 72-year history. Throughout the day, 54 million people slowly trickled in and out of some 84 thousand polling stations across the country, stamping their choice of representatives in 272 Federal and 577 Provincial constituencies on secret ballot papers, until the clock struck six in the evening. And then b...