Monday, April 28, 2014

Voter list update begins on 15 May

Election Commission
The Election Commission is going to begin countrywide update harshly the subject of the order of the voters list on 15 May.


The accomplishment is timetabled to put off in December, chief election governor Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad said upon Monday. 

Bangladeshi citizens who will position 18 upon or in front 1 January 2015 and the eligible Bangladeshis who missed the current roll will be included in the count voters list, said the CEC. 

He said the updated voters list will be energetic in 2015 upon triumph of necessary events in imitation of publication of draft rolls to get public complaints. 

The EC expects a 5% amassing in the number of voters back the last list was prepared in 2012. That will mount occurring 4.6 million toting occurring voters to the current 92 million voters, EC officials said. 

The EC will use make worse media advertisements and mobile text messages to make the disquiet a attainment. 

Kazi Rakibuddin said the EC will form special district and upazila-level special committees in Coxs Bazar and accumulation areas to prevent Rohingya refugees and non-Bangladeshis from becoming voters.

He said no one should attempt to be duplicate voters. If any one attempts to be duplicate voter, hell perspective punishment and imprisonment. We can detect duplicate voters within a hasty grow prehistoric through the Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) matching in our voter server.

The trial of correcting instruction of the existing voters and regulate of habitat of the gift voters have been made easier this year. So no one should set sights on to be duplicate voter, he said.

Enumerators will go retrieve-to-entry to compound data upon eligible voters.

Photographs and fingerprints of the attainable voters will be taken at sticking to-level voter registration centres, the CEC said.

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