With 59 percent of the votes cast in the House of Representatives elections, 40 percent of the ballots printed for the first past the post (direct) and proportional electoral systems were unused.
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Only 59 percent of the votes were cast in the election for the House of Representatives held on 21 Falgun. The Election Commission had printed the ballot papers based on the total number of voters.
The Commission had printed the ballot papers through the Janak Shiksha Samagi Kendra, which was 7 percent more than the number of voters for both systems out of a total of 18.9 million 3 thousand 669 voters. The Commission had printed 41.1 million 43 thousand ballot papers, including 23.23 million for direct elections and 28.43 million for proportional elections, and transported them to the respective constituencies. About 40 percent of the ballot papers were not used in the election.
According to the Commission, 11.68 million 32 votes were cast for the first past the post electoral system, out of which 59.17 million (94.55 percent) votes were valid. Similarly, 1.28 million 835 thousand 25 (96.05 percent) votes were cast in the proportional election system out of 1.18 million 617.
Unused ballot papers will now go through the process of being washed: Election Commission
Election Commission spokesperson Narayan Prasad Bhattarai said that as per the practice of printing more ballot papers than the number of voters, this time too 4.14 million 43 thousand ballot papers were printed, and the unused ballot papers will go through the process of being washed in that area as per the legal provisions.
In the context of some raising questions about whether there was any misuse in printing more ballot papers than the number of voters? Or whether there is a question about the fairness of the election? Spokesperson Bhattarai said, 'We can doubt it, but there is no doubt about the fairness of the election. It is not appropriate to doubt it on the basis that the ballot papers were wasted because we submitted the report to the President and no such question was formally raised by any party or faction.'
Managing Director of Janak Shiksha Yadunath Poudel said that in addition to regular work including printing textbooks, realizing the responsibility of the nation, 1.3 million ballot papers were printed daily as per the commission's mandate and handed over safely and on time. He said that the work of printing ballot papers has also helped the center to cover its deficit.
‘Government Document Shredding Rules, 2027 (First Amendment, 2070)’ states that ‘shredding shall mean the act of rendering a document in a government office unreadable, intelligible or otherwise unusable, and the term also includes the act of burning such a document.’
According to the law, after the expiry of the period of validity of the documents in his office, the head of the concerned office may ‘order to shred such documents as are deemed appropriate to be shredded at any time after the completion of the work, provided that no harm or damage to the Government of Nepal is caused’. It is also stated that the shredded documents can also be sold at auction.
The law classifies the documents to be shredded after 3 months of the completion of the work. ‘Except for maps and design-related data, any construction work plan, contract, lease, or grant-related document shall be audited after the completion of the work and shall be finally There is a provision to sanitize the documents after the completion of the related work and the audit. It has been said that documents of national importance should never be sanitized.
The commission printed 40 million ballot papers for the House of Representatives and Provincial Assembly elections held in 2079 BS, and about 62 percent of the votes were cast, leaving the remaining ballot papers unused.
