EC not ready to use EVM

Staff Correspondent: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda said, "We are not ready to use Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) in the national elections."

The CEC said this while talking to journalists at a press conference at the EC Secretariat in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in the capital on Wednesday afternoon.

Nurul Huda said, "We are not ready to use Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) in the national elections what I earlier said. We will use the EVM system in the local elections experimentally."

Asked whether the army will be deployed in the next general elections, the CEC said, "We are yet to decide on the issue. But the reality is that the army remains deployed in every national election. We have not taken any decision in this regard."

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