The Election Commission has formed a central monitoring committee to find out the problems in the ongoing voter roll updating as it did not get the targeted number of people in the first phase of new voter enrolment.
The EC began the fresh enrolment from May 15 to 24, aiming to enrol 5% new voters in 181 upazilas, but they were only able to enrol 4%.
“The committee will find out the cause of the low number of new voter enrolment,” a senior assistant secretary yesterday told the Dhaka Tribune.
Committees were formed at every division, district, upazila and city corporation to monitor the voter list updating activities, he said, adding that 10 sub-committees had been formed under the central committee. They all would submit area-based reports.
Some of the sub-committees would be led by the commission’s deputy secretary and the others by its senior assistant secretary, the official said, adding that the commission had meanwhile decided to launch a mass campaign for voter enrolment.
New voters will be enrolled at 218 upazilas in the second phase from June 15 to 24 and at 115 upazilas from September 1 to 10 in the third phase.
