Jan 18 last day for excluded DCC voters to be enlisted Changing polling addresses of over 2 lakh voters begins soon

The persons who are eligible to be voters in the areas under the Dhaka City Corporation, who failed to register their names in the voters’ roll during the recently concluded updating drive, will get a chance to enlist their names from tomorrow after publication of the draft list.
The eligible citizens who could not be enlisted during the updating drive due to either their own negligence or that of the enumerators will have to apply in prescribed forms and submit them to the thana election office at 67, West (Paschim) Agargaon by January 18.
Those who lose the chance of being registered as voters by January 18 will not be able to cast their votes in the upcoming DCC polls. The Election Commission will publish the final updated voters’ list of the corporation on 3 February. The election commissioners had earlier said that the EC is planning to hold the DCC polls in the last week of March.
The Election Commission will publish the draft of the updated electoral roll of the DCC tomorrow, which will remain open for all to inspect at the offices of district election officers, thana registration officers and all offices of the DCC ward commissioners. ‘The commission will receive objections and suggestions for the correction of the draft list from people till January 18, and the revising authorities will dispose of them by January 26,’ said a circular.
A number of eligible citizens alleged that they had waited for the enumerators but no one had visited their houses to collect information for registering them as voters. Some of them said that they communicated with the enumerators and requested them to collect the necessary information, but the enumerators had not paid any heed to them.
The Election Commission was also compelled to extend the time for enumerators to make door-to-door visits for updating the voters’ roll in October last year.
People born on 1 January, 1992 or earlier will be eligible to register their names for inclusion in the voters’ roll. Those who will become voters this year will get national ID cards, announced the EC.
The EC, meanwhile, has decided to allow listed voters to change their polling areas at the beginning of year.
The EC, for the first time, has taken the decision as over two lakh voters have filed applications to change their polling areas. They will henceforth be able to vote in the new areas only.
Due to the EC’s decision to allow changing of polling addresses, the scope has been created for many candidates to contest at all tiers of the local government in the polling areas of their choice, said an official of the EC secretariat.
The secretariat at a review meeting on November 12 issued a five-point directive to registration officers and assistant registration officers on changing the applicants’ polling areas.

News source: Newage

Jan 18 last day for excluded DCC voters to be enlisted Changing polling addresses of over 2 lakh voters begins soon

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