Cox’s Bazar Representative: Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal said that the Election Commission is emphasizing the use of modern technology and the skills of the workers in the elections in line with the rest of the world. That is why the Election Commission fully trusts the EVM system.
He claimed, ‘EVMs have been used in about five hundred elections. But no one has been able to show its objective error. Candidates raise questions about EVMs only when they lose the elections. In the coming twelfth election, the commission has the capacity to receive votes through EVMs in 50 to 80 seats.
The chief election commissioner said this in the speech of the chief guest at a day-long workshop titled ‘Using modern technology in election management: Challenges and Ways to Overcome” organized at a star hotel in Cox’s Bazar city on Saturday (March 11) morning.
The workshop was held under the initiative of the Chittagong Regional Election Office under the “Capacity Enhancement and Strengthening Project” of the Election Commission Secretariat.
CEC Habibul Awal said that the main task of the Election Commission is to give voters the opportunity to exercise their right to vote. Who are the voters? Which party did they vote for? That is not a matter for the commission to look at. If voters cannot vote, if they are prevented from voting, if their rights are curtailed at the polling station, then all concerned will have to take responsibility for our failure.
Chittagong Divisional Commissioner Dr. Md. Aminur Rahman presided over the opening ceremony of the workshop as a special guest, along with Election Commissioner Retired Brigadier General Md. Ahsan Habib Khan, Election Commission Secretariat Additional Secretary Ashok Kumar Debnath, Project Director Brigadier General Abul Hasnat Mohammad Sayem, and Chittagong Range Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG). Anwar Hossain, Deputy Commissioner of Cox’s Bazar Muhammad Shaheen Imran, District Police Superintendent Md. Mahfuzul Islam, and others
At that time, Election Commission officials, senior administration officials, police, representatives of civil society, new voters, public representatives, and freedom fighters participated.
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Habibul Awal arrived in Cox’s Bazar on Thursday on a four-day visit. He is scheduled to leave Cox’s Bazar for Dhaka tomorrow, Wednesday.
