Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) are like magic boxes, Jatiya Party (JaPa) mayoral candidate Shafiqul Islam Modhu has said.
“The election environment is not fair. Supporters other than those of the Awami League are not being allowed inside the polling centres,” he said while talking to reporters after casting his vote at Khulna Collegiate Girls' School centre in ward no 17 on Monday.
He later alleged that the officials present at the polling centres are not skilled in using EVMs.
“I asked the Election Commission not to use their ‘magic boxes' this time. But they did not listen to me,” the mayoral candidate added.
Voting for the 31 wards of Khulna City Corporation (KCC) polls began at 8am on Monday.
The voting will take place via electronic voting machines (EVMs) at 289 centres till 4pm.
Dhaka TribuneA total of 2,320 CCTV cameras have been installed both inside and outside 1,732 polling booths.
As many as 535,522 voters, including 268,828 male and 266,698 female, will cast their votes in the KCC polls.
Several voters at Khulna City Corporation (KCC) polls have expressed their satisfaction with the use of electronic Voting Machines (EVMs).
One voter, Mojammel Haque, said it took him 20 seconds to cast his vote through EVM at National Girls High School centre in ward no 18.
Another voter, Marufa Begum, said: “This is the first time I used EVM. It took five minutes, as I had to understand it first. However, the environment at the polling centre was good.”
Latifa Begum, a voter at the National Government Primary School centre in ward no 19, said that she voted for the second time through EVM. “There was no problem.”