Pakistan and India:Will Reunification Ever Happen? Part Eight- A Harsha Sankar Article

Pakistan and India:Will Reunification Ever Happen? Part Eight              July 2020

Eligible electorate cast their yes or no answers publicly to this referendum in three elections. The second and third is scheduled to take place two and four years respectively after the first election takes place.

There will be a two-pronged approach on how the ballots are counted. Obviously a physical presence is required with a signature unless a voter has previously been declared incapacitated or is a member of the military or out of station government service. The ballots are counted in the polling booth level and at the district level.

Each polling booth and district in each "State" receives all the assigned electoral votes for the majority of votes cast in favor of a specific proposal. The total number of electoral votes for all the polling booths should equal the total number of electoral votes for all the districts.

The total of the combination of polling booth electoral votes and district level electoral votes for the specific proposal is to be recorded for each state. The electorate vote in the second election two years later.

Stay tune to my next post as I will explain the criteria that needs to be met for a "States" proposal to be accepted in the final count to determine either re-unification or preservation of the same national status.