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Final Voters’ List Handed Over to the Bangladesh’s Chief Election Commissioner


15-October-2008
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Election Commissioners in Bangladesh receive Voters'List.
Election Commissioners in Bangladesh receive Voters'List.
With the completion of the electoral roll with photograph, Bangladesh is now also the proud owner of the world's largest electronic database of Eighty one Million and a Hundred Thousand voters.

A delegation of Bangladesh Army, which assisted the Election Commission (EC) in implementing the voter list project, handed over the printed electoral roll to EC on Tuesday, wrapping up the over-one-year-long mammoth task.

It will soon hand over to EC the electronic database, which is higher than that of France's  Seventy Million voters.

 

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda said receiving some copies of the voter list symbolically in a special ceremony that he was delighted and proud of  the fact that the high ambitious task has been completed .

 

 

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