EC, police officials take no actions against the stuffing of fake votes in ballot boxes

Election officials and police have refused to act against a group of youths casting fake votes at the Kobi Nazrul College centre in the Dhaka South City Corporation elections.

Ten people were casting others’ votes in booth No. 3 at the centre in front of journalists at around 2pm on Tuesday.

They were seen stamping the ballot papers one after another.

When a journalist photographed the glaring electoral fraud, a man named ‘Abu’ snatched the camera and deleted the photos.

He asked another man, ‘Sayem’, standing next to him, to summon their ‘people’ to deal with the journalists.

Abu told journalists: “Let us do our job and you do yours.”

Presiding officer Abul Kalam Azad claimed there was no ‘unusual situation’ at his centre.

As journalists drew his attention to the casting of fake votes, he said: “You might have seen that but I haven’t.”

When such bogus votes were being stuffed into the ballot box, four polling officers along with police and Ansar personnel stood on the balcony.