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Several police and administration officers told the Election Commission that ballot papers for the 12th national election should be taken to the polling stations on the day before the election day. ....
Barishal and Khulna city polls: The elections to Barishal and Khulna city corporations held on May 12, 2023 cannot be considered free, fair and credible, as they were non-competitive. The main opposition BNP did not take part in them because of their experience with “managed elections” of the past, which I termed the “Khulna model” (The Daily Star, July 17, 2018). ....
Md Alamgir said those who wrote against the use of EVMs had not voted using the EVMs, never seen it, and were unwilling to hear about it. He asked whether any of those voters who had used the EVMs had ever written any column in a newspaper. No wonder, the contagion effect of the government’s search for helpful columnists has reached the Election Commission. ....