The Election Commission will publish the draft of an updated voter list on January 15.
According to a letter sent to all election officers at local level on Monday, the date has been delayed 13 days from the usual date of January 2 for publishing the voter list.
The letter signed by Assistant Secretary of Election Commissioner Md Mosharraf Hossain, said the upazila level election officers will publish the voter list of respective areas on January 15.
The decision of renewing the voter list was taken immediately after Kazi Habibul Awal was appointed as Chief Election Commissioner on February 26 this year.
After 2019, the updating of voters' lists began this year by collecting information from every house for three weeks. Inclusion of new voters, exclusion of deceased and transferring those who changed location was done during the process.
Information of those who were born before January 1, 2007, and are eligible to become voters was collected.
After that photo, fingerprint and iris identification information were collected at designated registration centers.
