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December 25, 2008
By E-Bangladesh

Voter ID card
Image by: Tanvir Ahmed, DRIK NEWS

As Bangladesh gears up for its first parliamentary elections in seven years on 29 December, the first ever computerized photo voter list in the south Asian country containing pictures of more than 80 million people is now complete after taking 11 months to compile with United Nations help.

An independent audit of the list by the Washington-based International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) has concluded that the list was compiled with a “high degree of accuracy,” and no ‘ghost voters’ were found,” – UN News Center

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