Govt wants to influence polls by e-voting: Rizvi
BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Rizvi Ahmed today said that the government wants to manipulate people’s mandates by introducing electronic voting system in the next general election likely to be held in 2019.
“It is a farsighted decision of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina,” Rizvi came up with the allegation at a press conference at the party’s Nayapaltan central office, a day after the premier expressed her keenness in the parliament to introduce e-voting system.
Claiming that the government will be able to manipulate vote using the system easily, he said it is nothing but an attempt to forge vote in the election. “It is just outcome of the premier’s trick.”
He said Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed, just outgoing chief election commissioner, introduced the system at some centers in Chittagong City Corporation polls in 2010 on an experimental basis.
But the then CEC has been forced stay aside from the system in the face of protest from different political parties including BNP, he added.
He said the system was introduced in many countries including Germany, Switzerland and USA but they have scraped. Several cases have also been lodged against the system as it is possible to hack the system from away, he added.
Citing logic against the system, Rizvi said many people in Bangladesh are still illiterate and it will be hard for them to understand the technical device.
Apart from this, the government will be able to regulate the e-voting server to meet its desire, the BNP leader said.
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