In a good step towards using Result Management System (RMS), the ElectionCommission of Pakistan has decided to impart training in the RMS toemployees and a one-day mock exercise on the old RMS machines will be heldtoday (Tuesday).
The Election Commission of Pakistan Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has dispatchedletters to regional election commissioners in this regard.
As per the letter, RMS will be practiced from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm for 51National Assembly seats, says the letter. Operators will also practice onRMS machines for 145 provincial assembly seats.
The election commission had also dispatched letters to all regionalcommissioners in this regard on February 23.
The provincial election commissioner has issued an operators list to workon RMS machines.
The letter says that the implantation of the guidelines issued by the ECPmust be ensured. The ECP has already issued protocols to provincialelection commissioners and district election commissioners.
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If data entry operators face any difficulty, they should report to theelection officers concerned, reads the letter.
The letter further says that this temporary practice must be preferred andproposals should be presented.
All the operators have been provided user names and passwords for trainingpractice. The sources said that the ECP had already given a contract worthrupees tens of millions to modify the RMS.
The election commission has decided to hold elections in Punjab and KhyberPakhtunkhwa through the RMS system used during 2018 elections.
