Ballot Papers Dispatched to Remote Districts

The Election Commission has started transporting ballot papers to 10 districts of Karnali Province, a remote northwestern region of the country after completing printing.

Ballots for Salyan, Rukum West, Dolpa, Mugu, Humla, Kalikot, Jumla, Jajarkot, Dailekh and Surkhet districts are now being delivered.

The Election Commission said the printing of ballot papers for 133 constituencies in 63 districts has been completed.

So far, 17 million 163 thousand ballot papers have been printed, said the Commission’s assistant spokesperson Prakash Neupane.

Now, only the ballot papers for the 14 districts surrounding the Kathmandu Valley are to be printed. The ballot paper printing had been started from January 6.

Assistant spokesperson Neupane stated that it is estimated that the ballot papers for the remaining districts can be printed in three days.

The ballot papers already printed have been packed. So far, 15 thousand 371 boxes of ballots have been packed.

Currently, about a thousand boxes of ballot papers are being packed daily and 1.1 to 1.5 million ballots are being printed.

The Election Commission has stated that 20 million 323 thousand ballot papers need to be printed for the first-past-the-post (FPTP) elections.