Voter list updating begins tomorrow in capital
The Election Commission will begin updating the voter lists of the areas under Dhaka south and north city corporations tomorrow, said Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad.
Enumerators will go door to door to collect information about prospective voters to register them on the electoral rolls and delete names of the dead from the lists, the CEC said yesterday at a training workshop of enumerators in Rajuk Uttara Model Collage Auditorium in the capital.
The commission will begin the task with Uttara and Sabujbag. Updating of voter lists of Gulshan, Dhanmondi, Demra, Motijheel, Cantonment, Mirpur, Mohammadpur, Lalbagh, Kotwali, Sutrapur, Tejgaon, Ramna, and Pallabi will begin on September 15, he said.
"There is no alternative to flawless voter lists for a free and fair election," Rakibuddin said, adding that he did not want to see any complication in the polls because of erroneous voter lists.
He made the remark in context of the controversial voter lists prepared by the Justice MA Aziz-led EC in the run-up to the ninth parliamentary polls scheduled for January 22, 2007.
The scheduled polls could not be held due to declaration of a state of emergency amid political turmoil. Erroneous voter list was one of the major reasons for the turmoil.
The current EC has recruited 3,319 enumerators and 668 supervisors for updating the voter lists of the areas under the divided Dhaka city corporations.
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