Well actually the newspapers were calling it a success :)
And I didn't see AL or BNP complaining about it :)
Unless of course you believe everything that the EC says :)
Come on. Lets talk real politics..
Do you think Tariq Rahman was the right person to be the Senior
General Secretary of BNP?
Do you think Tariq Rahman is lucky to be still alive?
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Sajjad Hossain <shossain456@...>
wrote:
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> Did you find your name there? The Election Commission said they
would the Old Voter List because the electronic one was full of
mistakes. Female was recorded as a male; Many voters got new fathers;
etc. etc. If you call it a success then I think you need to see a
Doctor.
>
> SH
> Toronto
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> --- On Wed, 6/25/08, Ezajur Rahman <ezajur.rahman@...> wrote:
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> From: Ezajur Rahman <ezajur.rahman@...>
> Subject: [ALOCHONA] Whopping success for Election Commission
> To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 11:04 PM
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> Whopping success for EC
> 8 crore voters already registered, electronic database ready
> Courtesy Daily Star 26/6/08
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> The Election Commission (EC) yesterday achieved its target of
registering eight crore voters with their photographs taken, within
the deadline stipulated by the electoral roadmap, putting to rest all
skepticism about the project's success.
>
> The commission also has the electronic database of the eight crore
voters ready, which perhaps will be one of the largest electronic
databases of electoral rolls in the world while being definitely the
largest among developing countries, claimed senior officials engaged
in the mammoth project that began in August last year.
>
> A few lakh more voters might still be added to the list by the June
30 deadline for wrapping up the field level work of voter
registration, the officials added.
>
> The entries are being checked and re-checked leaving no room for
duplication, they noted.
>
> Bangladesh Army has been helping the EC in the project since its
inception.
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> Distribution of national identity cards for the voters, which are
being prepared simultaneously with the voter list with photographs,
will also be completed by the end of October, sources said.
>
> The number of voters on the current list with photographs is set to
drop by at least 1.2 crore compared to the previous list prepared by
the immediate past controversial EC led by Justice MA Aziz.
>
> On the previous list, prepared in 2006, the number was 9.30 crore,
which was later scrapped due to a large number of duplications and
other errors on it, costing the exchequer Tk 60 crore for nothing.
>
> The violent dispute that raged over the 2006 voter list was one of
the pivotal reasons for the rather unorthodox changeover of power on
1/11/2007 and the subsequent stalling of the ninth parliamentary
election, originally scheduled for January 22 of the same year.
>
> Earlier, between 1994 and 1995 the state lost over Tk 100 crore as
the erstwhile EC failed to deliver after it had taken up a project
for distributing voter ID cards.
>
> Given the size of the country's population, the current EC earlier
estimated that the number of voters would be around eight crore.
>
> Elated by the whopping success, the United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP), which has been assisting the EC in the job, is
planning to celebrate the achievement at the end of July, sources
said.
>
> Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed, who inaugurated the field level
work of voter registration in Rajshahi City Corporation area in
August last year, is expected to join the grand celebration as the
chief guest.
>
> Civil and military bureaucrats involved in the project, and
officials of different foreign missions in Dhaka will also be invited.
>
> According to a progress report prepared by the project
headquarters, till June 22 a total of 7.97 crore voters were
registered.
>
> The field level work of voter registration is still going on in 41
areas with one lakh voters on an average being registered daily.
>
> "We are sure that eight crore voters have been registered by today.
However, we will receive a confirmation report from the field within
two or three days," a senior official engaged in voter listing said
yesterday.
>
> With the completion of registrations in the remaining 41areas by
June 30, the field level work will come to a successful end within
the deadline stipulated in the electoral roadmap announced by the EC
on July 15 of last year.
>
> The EC launched the highly ambitious project for preparing the
national voter list with photographs in an effort to put an end to
persistent controversies over voter lists, amid widespread skepticism
about its success.
>
> The national voter list with photographs is being prepared by the
EC under the auspices of a UNDP project titled 'Preparation of
Electoral Roll with Photographs and Facilitating the Issuance of
National Identity Cards', to the tune of an estimated Tk 424 crore
with
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> Tk 274 crore of it coming from contributions made by different
foreign donor agencies and countries.
>
> Along with the field level voter registration, printing of the
voter list is also going on in full swing under active supervision of
the army.
>
> Till yesterday, final voter lists for 120 areas including city
corporations and upazilas were printed while printing of the final
voter lists for 18 other areas is going on.
>
> Draft voter lists for 311 areas out of a total 522 areas were
printed till yesterday.
>
> Over 3 crore national identity cards were prepared till yesterday,
1.56 crore of which had already been distributed, officials engaged
in the voter listing project said.
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