The Election Commission (EC) has extended the voter list updating deadline until April 27 next year for those whose data could not be collected or were dropped from the latest updating process.
"More importantly, the process of becoming a voter online will continue at all times,” Election Commission Senior Secretary Akhtar Ahmed said at a press briefing on the primary data collected for updating the voter list at Nirbachan Bhaban in Agargaon, Dhaka, on Tuesday.
He said that their field-level officials collected data on 4,970,388 people who are eligible to be voters by Monday (the last date) of the door-to-door data collection campaign, which started on January 20 simultaneously across the country.
He said: “Those whose data were collected will be listed as voters upon completion of the registration process.”
Additionally, the data of 1,523,000 deceased voters were collected, and their names will be removed from the final voter list, the EC official shared.
He said they had initially set a target of registering 6.1 million people as new voters this year.
Revealing the statistics of data collection, Akhtar Ahmed said that the voter growth rate this time is 3.9%.
Among them, the exclusion rate has increased by 2.44%, while the registration rate has seen an increase of 1.45%, he noted.
Akhtar Ahmed also mentioned that the number of deceased voters is lower this time compared to the voter list updating program three years ago.
He said it would be known later, upon discussions with field-level officials, why this occurred.
