Voter list and elections
Photo: Adnan / Driknews
A few days back the CTG successfully completed the preparation of national Voter ID. The people are grateful to the EC for giving a genuine voter list, for the first time in the history of Bangladesh, with pictures within the EC's own declared time schedule. This genuine ID with the voter's photo will go a long way to streamlining the electoral process. Not only in Bangladesh, vote rigging, result manipulation, intimidation of voters occur in many places in the world, especially in the third world countries. The latest example is Zimbabwe. So, a genuine voter list is only one criterion for a fair election. Our past experiences in Bangladesh are not that good. The last alliance government prepared a result sheet before even holding the election, one of the advisers publicly admitted this fact. So, it is not very difficult to stuff the ballot boxes without having voters' physical presence at the polling stations. At this moment, the people are hopeful of a free, fair and credible election in the country under the present caretaker govt., but they are very much apprehensive of fraudulent practices in the future. People know that this government's tenure is almost over. Could the government and all the political parties rich an agreement that they would find a way for future elections to be free, fair and credible?
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