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Download PDF The Election Commission (EC) will receive around two lakh transparent ballot boxes from Canadian government free of cost by the end of September for the upcoming parliamentary election.
“The transparent ballot boxes are now being manufactured for us. We will get those before October,” Election Commissioner Brig Gen (retd) M Sakhawat Hussain told reporters at his office yesterday.
In response to the demand by the major political parties, the EC has decided to introduce transparent ballot boxes, instead of using traditional boxes made of steel, in the next election scheduled on the third week of December.
The election commissioner said the EC plans to hold the polls to Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) at the end of August or early September while elections to other four city corporations and some municipalities will take place in mid-July.
“The elections to city corporations will be a test case for us to identify potential difficulties in holding the parliamentary election in a free and fair manner,” he added.
Asked whether the transparent ballot boxes would be used in the DCC polls, he said the EC might use those if the boxes are available by that time.
Sakhawat said the EC would announce schedule for the polls to city corporations of Rajshahi, Khulna, Sylhet and Barisal and seven municipalities on third week of July. “Final voter list for the city corporations and municipalities are now complete,” he said.
The progress in the preparations for the general election is satisfactory, the election commissioner said adding “We hope the final voter list will be ready by the end of September.”
Sakhawat said the EC is planning to ask the field level election officials to start preparing the draft list of presiding officers for the parliamentary election to avoid controversies over their recruitment.
He said the draft list of the presiding officers, who works as the chief polling officials at the polling stations, will be finalised after disposing of objections, if any filed.
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