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Download PDF Election Commission yesterday admitted that there is possibility of fake voting as the updated electoral roll contains more names than the actual number of voters.
“There is possibility of fake voting due to duplication of names as some people registered their names in more than one place while many names that should have been dropped are still there,” said Abdur Rashid Sarker, secretary to Election Commission (EC) Secretariat.
“But people will resist fake voting,” he told reporters yesterday.
The EC secretary said, “If any irre-gularity in the election observation work is proved against any organisation, the EC will ban them for a minimum of three years.”
Asked about fund misuse by some NGOs in the name of election observation during the union parishad elections in 2003, he said, “We are trying to finalise a policy on election observation.
“There has been no policy so far in this regard and we could not take any action against these organisations.”
The EC secretary said they are planning to give those who have not registered their names in the updated voter roll a chance. He, however, said the EC will finalise the matter.
An eligible voter can include his/her name in the voter list even one day before the election, he added, urging voters left out of the updated list to contact with the upazila election offices for registration.
Meanwhile, the EC Secretariat is now busy with the process of publishing the updated voter list. The procurement committee will sit tomorrow and then the EC will begin the tender process.
“We will float the tender within this month,” the EC secretary said.
He refused to accept the increase in voters’ number as “unusual”, saying the increase in 2000 was 32 per cent.
The latest updating of the existing voter list was conducted from August 28 to September 5 and the number of voters on the updated list stood at a surprising 9.30 crore as it registered 17 lakh more voters than on the nullified draft of the fresh voter list.
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