The need to go door-to-door is a well defined procedure laid down in the rules to not only enroll the eligible voters, it also fulfills two other equally important adjuncts of the updating process -- deletion of the names of the deceased since the last updating and the deletion of the fake voters. The framers of the rules were well aware that this could not be done without going to each and every household in the country. And that is why it was incorporated in the rules. And to suggest that a new amendment was required is nothing but a travesty of the truth.

We also fail to understand his aversion to publishing the draft voter list. Either he is unaware of the provisions of the relevant rules of the said Ordinance or he is deliberately trying to throw the spanner in the whole election works. How would a voter ascertain whether his or her name is on the list in the first place and then verify further the correctness of the information related to him or her if the voter cannot view the draft? Publication of the draft voter list is an indispensable part of the updating process that consists of several steps and circumventing even one of them will cause the list to be incomplete and thus any election under that list will be an infraction of the process.

As we have said in this column in the past that the CEC has always recanted his position at great national cost but with always a caveat that has compounded the situation further. His latest utterances on the publication of the voter list and the revising of his earlier stance on the modality of updating it are an example of his mindset.

We cannot but help feel strongly that the gentleman is out to spoil the election. One wonders whose agenda he is carrying out.