Days af­­ter the belated test trial of the new Election Mana­g­e­ment System (EMS), the PPP has raised alarm over the plan.

In a letter to Chief Elec­tion Commissioner Sikan­dar Sultan Raja, head of the PPP central election cell Senator Taj Haider brought to notice, his party’s serious objections to the introduction of a completely new and un­­familiar application (EMS Mobile App) for electronic transmission of results.

“We apprehend that a situation similar to that of the failure of RTS in 2018 elections can emerge which like the general elections 2018 will be used for massive rigging of the results bes­ides causing long delays in compiling of the provis­i­o­n­­al results by the ret­urn­ing officers,” the letter, a copy of which is available with Dawn, reads.

The letter points out that the EMS application was a completely unfamiliar app supposed to be used for the first time in general elections.

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