EC reluctant to go for online vote monitoring
Election Commission is reluctant to monitor voting through online, but CCTV will be used for three city corporation elections.
CCTV will be used in some centers of Rajshahi, Sylhet, and Barisal city corporation elections scheduled to be held on July 30, but there is no initiative taken for online vote monitoring.
“There are no plans for online monitoring. CCTV will be used. CCTV will even be used for 3 city corporation polls. We’ll take report in each hour. There is no need for online monitoring,” Election Commissioner Brig Gen (retd) Shahadat Hossain Chowdhury told Banglanews.
“It (online vote monitoring) is very expensive. Though, it is not possible to use for all polling centers, but it should be used for some risky or important centers,” quoting EC officials.
