The 11th parliament polls on December 30, which witnessed highest number of invalid votes ever recorded, is also a testimony that EVMs are fullproof as far as rate of spoilt ballot papers or invalid votes is concerned. Invalid votes have been seen in almost all constituencies (except Rangpur 6) where votes were cast manually, i.e. He said: "There is no issue of counting invalid votes in EVMs. "As you are saying, the number of invalid votes in this election is not a small number. EVMs will be beneficial in the future, where everyone can cast their votes and no vote will be considered as invalid," the former election commissioner added.

Source: Dhaka Tribune January 07, 2019 18:22 UTC