Draft voter list published; over 18 lakh new voters included
Staff Correspondent
Last year the number of voters increased by 18.33 lakh putting the total count at 12.36 crore, according to the draft list published by the Election Commission (EC) on Thursday.
Every year, the draft of updated voter list is published on 2 January with the final list coming out on 2 March, and the same would be done this year, according to information revealed at a press conference at the EC head office in Agargaon in the capital.
A major change in this year’s voter list updating process will be door-to-door visits by EC officials to ensure credibility of the voter list starting 20 January, said Election Commissioner Brigadier General (Retd) Abul Fazal Md Sanaullah at the press conference.
In the updated draft voter list, the number of male voters is 6 crore 33 lakh 30 thousand and 103, the tally for female voters is 6 crore 3 lakh 52 thousand and 415, and the count of third-gender voters is 994.
Overall, the number of voters has grown by 1.05%.
This year, 13,151 expatriates from seven foreign countries have been included in the draft list.
The EC would receive requests for amending voter information until 17 January, and settle the issues by 30 January.
