Voter list
Engineer Azizul Huq Green Road, Dhaka
Every citizen of Bangladesh, above 18 years of age, has the right to be a voter. If he or she has no mental sickness, no one can ever deny his / her right of being voter. A survey report on voter list indicated that there are about 8% fake voters in the list which was made in 2001. How long will this country have fake list of voters? Bangladesh has 14 crore people. Will there be not enough voters from them to exercise democracy? On the other day, a daily newspaper published a proposal made by one of the ministers on how to issue identity cards/passports for people which can be used for casting votes. This will take the shortest possible time for making voter list. From 50 years of my observation, I am sure that field level staff has nothing to do with the fake list, because in some cases they are forced to remain silent when influential politicians ask them to add fake names to the original list. There is no hope unless our politicians come forward to address the issue.
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