With the general elections just days away, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has conducted the first countrywide mock exercise to test its new Election Management System (EMS), developed by a private company, which it plans to put to use in the upcoming electoral exercise.
However, given the commission has yet to live down the failure of the Result Transmission System (RTS) that was put in place amid much pomp and circumstance in the 2018 polls, there has been no word on how successful (or unsuccessful) the last minute experiment has proven to be this time around.
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