The PTI has demanded the Election Commission to deploy troops during the elections to ensure free and fair cantonment board elections across the country.
A letter written by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief organizer Senator Saifullah Khan Niazi to the Election Commission said that sub-organizations from across the country were keeping abreast of the details of the ongoing election campaign for the Cantonment Board elections. Past experience has shown that elections held without assigning security to the military are subject to suspicion.
"The absence of electronic voting machines opens the door to rigging. Local political players can resort to rigging in elections, from fraudulent ballots to rigging the results," he said. Assistance should be sought from the army for the organization.
The chief organizer of PTI said that in order to maintain law and order, army personnel should be deployed inside and outside the polling stations. In the current situation, keeping democracy free from rigging and violence is even more necessary and important.