He said that it was not a problem of whether
magnetic ink was used or not, since NADRA did not have the necessary equipment to read
magnetic ink in the first place.
The petitions pointed several irregularities during the May 2013 elections including nonuse of
magnetic ink as prescribed under the law.
Swiss company SIC PA--the leading security ink producer--has introduced SPARK [R] Live, the second generation of its OVAM [R] (Optically Variable
Magnetic Ink), which benefits from a new ink formulation and JDSU OVMP[R] pigments, as well as a revised creation process that produces high-resolution effects.
Earlier during the question and answer session Sheikh Aftab, minister for parliamentary affairs answering the question whether
magnetic ink was used for thumb impressions of voters in general election of May, 2013 said that
magnetic ink was used in the general election.
Soft steel is a rollable material designed to let the user create a surface for trade show booths on which the
magnetic ink jet can stick.
Also in May, the Board approved making permanent two services that had been the subject of pilot programs: check truncation (in which the bank holds the check and transmits payment information electronically) and the electronic capture of check data encoded for
magnetic ink character recognition (MICR).
Many women voters were not issued ballot papers even after their thumbs were marked with
magnetic ink and registration of ID Card number.
Ironically, he admits that most of the constituencies did not use
magnetic ink. Does he mean to say that results are already bogus because of the inefficiency of the Election Commission and the Caretaker Government?
He said, "we are satisfied over the reply of government" regarding the
magnetic ink. The opposition did not blame the government for not using the
magnetic ink in general elections.
Two new optically variable high security features for banknotes stand out as major competitors to DOVDs and holograms - micro optics and in particular Crane's Motion [R] security thread and Sicpa's SPARK [R], an OVMI (Optically Variable
Magnetic Ink) product.
magnetic ink - an ink that contains particles of a magnetic substance whose presence can be detected by magnetic sensors