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Pakistan and the Intersection of Tech & Elections
['Justin Hendrix', 'Ramsha Jahangir']
The Tech Policy Press Podcast
And as the results came in, it was quite a controversial election, because prior to the election started, one of the leading parties of Pakistan, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, led by former Prime Minister Imran Khan, was denied the opportunity to contest in elections under their party name, as form of ongoing censorship by the government. Even in 2013 national elections, 2018 national elections, they were one of the first parties to introduce the use of technology for election campaigning, fundraising, and politics. And lastly, on the point of innovation, what was interesting in terms of their innovative use of technology this time was that, because people couldn't talk to Imran Khan directly while he was in jail, and there has been a lot of censorship.