EC set to test new EVM in Rangpur city election
UNB
Five years after the last use of old EVM in the maiden polls to Rangpur City Corporation in 2012, the Election Commission is now going to use newly-designed EVM on trial basis in the upcoming election to the same city corporation, reports UNB. The new EVM (Electronic Voting Machine), produced by Bangladesh Machine Tools Factory, will be used in a polling station (Begum Rokeya College Centre of Ward No 25) of the city corporation election slated for December 21 next.
Unlike the old EVM, the new machine has a number of fresh features, including voter verification process, display of names of symbols of all the candidates, printed vote-casting confirmation slip and installation of data of the particular polling station. Generation of Quick Response (QR) code against each voter and confirmation option for the voter before casting ballot are among other features of the machine which can only be operated by the presiding officer of the polling station concerned or any other authorised persons.
