Proposal for e-voting ill-motivated: BNP

Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Thursday said the prime minister’s recent remarks in parliament about introducing Electronic Voting system in the next parliament election is ‘ill-motivated’.
BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi at a news briefing at the party’s central office said the government could control server in E-voting system and as a result it would be very easy 
for them to manupulate votes.
So talking about introducing E-voting system in next parliament election is undoubtedly ‘ill-motivated’ and an attempt for vote frauds to serve their (Awami League) own purpose, he said.
‘It is an exposure of another trick of the prime minister’, Rizvi said. 
He claimed that doubts have been created in public mind whether it is another attempt commit ‘digital deception by the prime minister’ to hold voterless election. 
He said when demand for exit of the Chief Election Commissioner rose, then the prime minister was playing with another magic of E-voting system to divert people’s attention from the CEC issue.
He claimed that people would resist any conspiracy of the ruling quarter over next parliament election.
The BNP leader said during 1/11 former Chief Election Comissioner ATM Shamsul Huda had proposed for introducing Electronic Voting Machine and at that time computer experts of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and nearly all political parties had opposed it.
Immediate past CEC Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad also had made efforts to introduce the EVM system and experimentally applied the system in some polling centers in Chittagong City Corporation polls in 2010, he said, adding that Rakibuddin had abandoned the efforts to introduce the system when various political parties inclduing BNP raised objection at that time.
Rizvi said other countries in the world which introduced voting through EVM had stopped using it when they found fault with the system. 
He said many people of Bangladesh are still unlettered and it would be difficult for them to understand and use the EVM technology. 

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