Voter list
Tanvir Ahmed / Driknews
The EC has by now perhaps made available the correct and updated voter list to the intending candidates of the 4 city corporation and 9 municipal bodies. Besides the voter list, the EC has an authenticated version of the voter list with photo. This would be used to verify the genuine voter by looking at the photo. The voter list with photo will not be available for general use, if I have understood the EC correctly. The political parties and the candidate will only get the voter list without photo. One can easily raise lots of legal questions about that approach of the EC. Without going into any details of it, I would like to mention one very simple way of verification of the correctness of the voter list to be used by the intending candidates. Just for the purpose of verification of the accuracy of the voter list, the candidate shall verify whether the voter's name, serial number and other information in the two sets of voter lists are identical except that one has photo and the other does not. If the candidates cannot have access to a list with photo, I think the media should make an investigative report after obtaining both copies of a particular constituency where local government election has been announced and verify the issue that I have raised here and keep the nation informed about the status of the correct voter list. I still think that voter lists are not ready for the local council election, not to speak of the general election. It is very disturbing to listen to a newly emerged political leader that the attendance in the election will be 60% even if the two major political parties do not participate. I have been maintaining all through that the false voting and non-transparent ballot boxes are not the only way of election rigging and engineering, the other major way is to project and announce higher voter presence through a very simple way used at the election result declaration centres. In the past the electronic media, especially the state controlled one, played some controversial role in declaring results. They should be careful enough to avoid such things.
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