Election Commission extends voter list updating deadline

Election Commission extends voter list updating deadline

The Election Commission (EC) has extended the voter list updating deadline till April 27 next for those whose data could not be collected or dropped from the latest updating process.
"More importantly, the process to be a voter through online will continue all time,” Election Commission Senior Secretary Akhtar Ahmed said at a press briefing on primary data collected for updating the voter list at Nirbachan Bhaban in Agargaon, Dhaka on Tuesday.
He said their field-level officials collected data on 49 lakh, 70, 388 people, who are eligible to be voters, till Monday (last date) of the door-to-door data collection campaign that started on January 20 simultaneously in the country.
“Those whose data were collected will be listed as voters on completion of the registration process,” he said.