{"id":435730,"date":"2026-09-09T21:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T16:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=435730"},"modified":"2026-09-09T21:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T16:12:15","slug":"ec-discusses-with-experts-on-voting-rights-to-nepali-citizens-living-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/09\/09\/435730.html","title":{"rendered":"EC discusses with experts on voting rights to Nepali citizens living abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu: <\/strong>The Election Commission (EC) has held a discussion on how the voting opportunity could be ensured to the Nepalis living in out of voting constituencies and those living abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/Election-Commission-1000x500-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-424472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/Election-Commission-1000x500-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/Election-Commission-1000x500-1-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/Election-Commission-1000x500-1-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Policy Research Institution, the Nepal Policy Institute, the Federation of Computer Association of Nepal, the Blockchain Association, IT and cyber security experts and academic researchers were present in the discussion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event dwelt on various models of voting including postal voting, voting through representatives, internet voting and the challenges associated with such sorts of voting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The issues also surfaced during the discussion were identity and verification of voters, one-person one voting, secrecy of voting, cyber and IT security, trust in the system, auditing, voting education and workforce. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the programme, election commissioner Dr Rajiv Subba made a presentation on practices in various countries on voting rights to citizen living abroad or out of the voting constituency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RSS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu: The Election Commission (EC) has held a discussion on how the voting opportunity could be ensured to the Nepalis living in out of voting constituencies and those living abroad. The Policy Research Institution, the Nepal Policy Institute, the Federation of Computer Association of Nepal, the Blockchain Association, IT and cyber security experts and academic &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":425467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,4,2],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-435730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-news","category-top-stories-main"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435731,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435730\/revisions\/435731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435730"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=435730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}