EVM is a ‘inferior machine’, established: Sujan

Citizens for Good Governance (Sujan) said Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) is a ‘worst machine’, it is established. In the last Comilla City Corporation, before that, various elections including Naratanganj City have been proved that EVMs deprive people of the right to vote.

Sujan editor Badiul Alam Majumdar and officials of the organization said this in a press conference at Dhaka Reporters Unity Milnattan on Tuesday afternoon. The press conference was held to present an analysis of the information of the newly elected public representatives of Comilla City Corporation.

Badiul Alam Majumdar showed the slowness and low turnout in EVMs, he said, in the last national elections, 51 percent of the votes were cast in the EVM system, while the remaining 294 seats received 81 percent of the vote in the paper ballot. This time in the Comilla City elections, 59 percent of the votes were cast, in 2012, Comilla had 75 percent of the vote in the EVM and 64 percent of the ballot in 2017. Many people left without voting in EVMs; That is, EVMs have deprived people of the right to vote, he questioned, what is the rationale of using the machine that deprives people of the right to vote?

Badiul Alam Majumdar said, ‘We believe that the Comilla city elections are fairly fair. But EVM is here and there is a lot of work. It is said that the EVM will be immediately available, but why did the results come after four hours? We want a fair investigation of it.’