As per the Election Commission (EC) procedure, an intending voter will have to submit a receipt of municipal tax or house rent or payment to local guards, and an affidavit of proof of age or an attested copy of SSC certificate with the application in a prescribed form.

The EC Secretariat directed field level officials to follow the procedure properly in updating the existing voter list, which began on Saturday with the enumerators not required to make door-to-door visit.

"It is not my business to see whether anybody submitted the required documents or not with the applications for being listed as voter," ARO Harun-Ur-Rashid said. He received six applications without these documents in the last two days for registration as voters.

Only 17 forms for inclusion of names in the voter list were distributed from his office till yesterday, Harun told reporters.

"Though we are receiving applications without required documents, the response is very poor," said Sajjad Hossain, who was working at the office of the commissioner of DCC Ward-49 at Dhanmondi yesterday in the absence of ARO for the ward Jamal Uddin.

Sajjad, who introduced him as a student and did not have any appointment to do the job, said 24 forms for inclusion of names as voter were distributed till yesterday.

"Six persons submitted those forms. And one person submitted a copy of his SSC certificate with the application," he told reporters. "I know the others, so I did not ask them to submit the required documents."

But Saidur Rahman, a resident of the locality, said those sitting in the ward commissioner's office are loyalists of the ward commissioner and a local BNP leader.

Sajjad however claimed he is not involved with any political party.

ARO Najim Uddin, also Dhanmondi thana election officer, was not present at the office of the commissioner of Ward-48 at about 1:00 pm. And an outsider named Tusher, who is lobbying for a job at Dhanmondi thana election office, was present there.

"A total of 24 forms for inclusion of names were distributed since Saturday. Two forms were submitted, one with a receipt of house rent and the other with no such document," he said.

The register maintained at the office showed that a person named Mohsin Sarkar of Moneshwar Road took nine forms on Saturday for deletion of names from the existing voter list but he did not submit any form till yesterday.

Referring to the required documents, several AROs said they would not receive any form without the required documents. "I asked people, who came to my office, to come up with the documents for being listed as voter. I will not entertain any applications without required documents," said Harunur Rashid, ARO of Ward- 2.

A number of district election officers also expressed the same views. "It is not possible to know a large number of people living in the area. So, we cannot accept applications for registration as voters without required documents," one of them told The Daily Star wishing anonymity.