The Election Commission (EC) has started bringing back all 1,100 electronic voting machines (EVMs) from its field offices across Bangladesh, to destroy ones which are flawed. Following the committee report, the Election Commission will destroy all defective EVMs. In January, 2011, the Comilla City Corporation election was held with EVMs in its entirety. Technical errors occurred in a few EVMs during the Comilla city election, Narsingdi municipality by-polls in 2012 and the Rajshahi city election in 2013. EC officials said the Commission will require some 300,000 EVMs to arrange the next national election entirely based on the machines instead of ballot boxes.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 07, 2017 15:45 UTC