Decision to use markers to tick ballots scrapped

Election Commission (EC) has backed away from a decision to use markers for voting in ballot papers.
The proposal to use the pens instead of seals in local and municipal elections had been scrapped, EC Secretariat Deputy-Secretary Abdul Wadud told bdnews24.com.
“The decision was taken a year ago at the 47th meet headed by CEC Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed to experimentally use pens or markers instead of marking seals in these elections,” he said.
The matter, however, was brought up at a recent meeting but senior Election Commissioner Abdul Mobarak objected saying: “We have to keep the earlier system in the local elections instead of pens or markers,” the meeting’s working paper states.