Temporary voters cannot cast vote : ECN

<p>The Election Commission (EC) has prepared a draft bill with the provision not allowing the temporary voters to cast votes in the election of provincial assembly. The draft, however, has a provision to allow them to cast vote in the House of Representatives. <br><br>The EC has made the provision in the draft prepared for provincial assembly member election that the voter, whose name has been registered in the voters list of any village body or municipality of any constituency, can cast vote only there.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<br><br>At a programme organised by the EC to collect suggestion of political parties on the bill today, political parties did not give any suggestion on the provision but urged the EC not to make provision of same 'threshold' for the House of Representatives and the provincial assembly. The EC has made provision of 1.5 per cent threshold in both assemblies in the draft. <br><br>However, the fringe parties have raised a clamour against the EC's decision to maintain threshold in the parliament and provincial assemblies. Lawmaker Gopal Dahit, Rukmani Chaudhary and Shivaji Yadav appealed to the EC to scrap threshold while suggesting the EC must keep the authority of announcing the date of the elections.<br><br>At the programme, EC Chief Commissioner Dr Ayodhi Prasad Yadav said the EC is of the mindset of counting the ballots at the voting centers and issuing a single ballot paper for both direct and proportional representation system.&nbsp; CEC Dr Yadav further said the EC is ready to hold elections and that the government should prepare infrastructure for it.<br><br><br></p>