ECP Sms Vote Verification, How to Check your Vote Status in Pakistan

[Tanha Karim]

ECP said that 85 million registered voters can check their records through a single SMS.



How to Check your Vote Status?

Simply send your CNIC (without dashes) to 8300
Example: Send “3740541882200” to 8300

You will soon receive a reply with following information:

Your CNIC Number
Electoral Area, i.e. District, Tehsil and city/town/village
Block Code
Serial Number

Note: Reply message is likely to have words in Urdu (unicode). You may not be able to read the text message if your phone doesn’t support unicode.

Election Commission said that it has purposefully not included the voters’ name and home address to avoid any privacy violations.

Charges:

SMS sent to 8300 will be charged @ Rs. 2 plus tax

What if you are not registered or registered with incorrect details?

Election Commission of Pakistan has said that that voters, in case of any issue, should immediately contact district election commissioner to get the details corrected. For the purpose, Election Commission is also arranging the establishment of display centers where voters can go an check their details and to get the information corrected.