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Commenting on the electoral system and voting, Chief Elections Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda said: “The United States cannot complete the vote count in four to five days. And we can announce the result in four to five minutes in EVM America should learn from us.
The CEC said this after casting its votes at the IES School and College Center in the Dhaka-17 constituency by-election around 12 noon on Thursday.
The CEC said: ‘Voters will go downtown on their own. I always say about the American elections, it has to look global, it has to work locally. The electoral culture in the United States is 150 years old. In addition, there is another issue, we made good decisions from the United States-Europe. On the one hand, they should learn from us. Because the United States cannot count the votes in four or five days. At EVM we count the votes in 10 minutes and announce the results in the center. This thing does not exist in the United States. In its nearly 250 years of democratic experience, it has yet to do so. Second, they do not have a central electoral commission.
Regarding the BNP’s allegations, he said: ‘No one has occupied a single center. Nobody did. The BNP voting agent did not go to the center. I discovered. My president informed me that no BNP electoral agent had informed him. And a respected person from BNP called me in the morning. He said that some people would come to me to complain. I went to the office for him and sat down. They did not come. Later I came to my office to accept if someone filed a complaint. I investigated the allegations. The claim is not true.
Stating that the BNP’s allegations were unfounded, he added: “I have been investigating through the presiding officer and the control room since this morning. There has been no adverse or anti-election incident anywhere.”
Regarding low voter turnout and lack of announcement of general holidays, the CEC said that “voters may be less familiar with EVMs. I don’t know exactly, it’s a matter of analysis. However, this is not the case in all cases. 61 percent of the votes were cast in local government elections. The elections to the National Assembly are a little less. I think they can better say why the voters don’t come. Ask me if my management is okay. Voters will go downtown on their own. And as a result of announcing the general license earlier, it has been seen that many people go home after the license. That is why the voters are low. With this in mind, it doesn’t take long to vote, so this time there is no general holiday.
Voting in the Dhaka-17 by-elections began at 8am on Thursday. Voting will continue uninterrupted until 4 pm
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