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Bangladesh to have 6.7 million new voters by 2018 as Election Commission updates electoral roll
The number of voters will be around 102.5 million in 2018 as the Election Commission (EC) is updating the list by deleting the names of the dead and including those aged between 15 and 17 years.
Published : 10 Oct 2015, 07:33 PM
Updated : 10 Oct 2015, 07:33 PM
Bangladesh now has about 96.2 million voters.
The EC completed data collection for the updating in September. Now it will collect photos of those aged between 15 and 17 years.
The EC officials said they gathered information of 6.7 million people who would attain the voting age by next three years.
On the other hand, the number of dead voters was 700,000.
EC Secretary Sirazul Islam said details of the collected data would be officially announced soon.
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