Some seven million new name are likely to be added to the electoral roll when the voter list is updated after tow years. the updating of the voter list started on March 10, 2012.
The Election Commission officially predicts that more than 7.5 million new voters will be added to the updated electoral register for 2013 as more than two million youths cross the threshold of 18 years annually.
The eligible persons, who earlier were dropped out of the list, and youths, whose age will have exceeded 18 years by January 1,2013 will be counted as new voters. Currently there are 85,557,243 voters in the country. The total cast of updating the voter list has been estimated at 800 million taka, which is almost three times higher compared to that of a previous update in 2099.
The commission has already appointed data collectors and supervisors and trained them. Voter registration forms were set to reach field level offices by March 8.
According to Section 11 of the Electoral Rolls Act 2009, the Election Commission is supposed to update the countrywide electoral roll during January 2-31 every year. But the immediate-past EC failed to update voter list in 2011 and 2012. The number of total voerts may cross 92 million once the current voter list is made up-to-dat.
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