Brotee, an election observer group, came up with the observation on Friday on the basis of their monitoring of the NCC elections, especially the use of EVMs. The voters reportedly said while using EVMs they could not see in a concrete and visible form the vote unlike the way they are used to vote with traditional ballot papers.
Brotee mentioned that more than 20 percent (21 percent) people said they did not know how to give vote with the EVMs before the 30 October election.
However, around 88 percent people said they wanted to give vote with the EVMs again in every upcoming election, Brotee, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), told a press conference.
Main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its allies are wary of the EVM system, saying that the system might provide the ruling Awami League the opportunity to rig the elections.
Brotee organised the press briefing to disseminate their observation and survey result of Narayanganj City Corporation polls in Dhaka Reporters Unity in the capital.
?We observed the EVM voting in Narayanganj City Corporation polls in 41of 58 polling centres (71 percent) and conducted a survey around 700 voters before and after poll,? said Brotee?s chief executive officer (CEO) Sharmin Murshid.
She said before the vote 54 percent people said they do not know how to give vote with the EVMs while 97 percent people know how to vote with the EVM.
Before the vote 51 percent people thought that the EVM vote is ?safe? while after the vote 82 percent people thought that the EVM vote is ?really safe,? she added.
After the vote many people said that to give vote with the EVMs is easy, took little time and is easy to count. Many people also said they had no proper idea about the EVMs before the vote and they did not take any training about it so they felt ?problems? while voting with the EVM, Sharmin Murshid said.
Before the vote 58 percent people are in favour of EVM while after vote 88 percent people are in favor of EVM, she added.
She said, ?There was no violence before and after the election as well as the minority people cast their vote without any fear.?
?The election is on of the best election we have ever observed,? she added.
Law and order in the poll was satisfactory and the law enforcement agencies were found to have played a neutral role, she added.
Ali Hossain, coordinator of Brotee, Raghunath Raha, deputy director of Brotee and Khan Ahmed Murshid, managing director of Brotee were also present in the press conference.
Source: daily-sun.com
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