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Voters' turnout in Gazipur city polls likely to be 50%: EC Alamgir

Voters' turnout in Gazipur city polls likely to be 50%: EC Alamgir
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Election Commissioner Md Alamgir said the voters' turnout in the Gazipur City Corporation polls might be 50%.

Earlier today, Md Alamgir expressed satisfaction regarding the Gazipur city polls on Thursday, stressing that no information of irregularities has been reported by far.

While talking to reporters at the election commission building this morning, he assured them that the polling has been going well by far.

When asked about complaints in regards to EVM and CCTV cameras, EC Alamgir argued that EVM being a machine can have malfunctions and it does.

Earlier, EC Md Alamgir, EC Rasheda Sultana and EC Ahsan Habib started monitoring the polls on CCTV cameras at 8am in the morning from the control room of the Election Commission. Later, EC Anisur Rahman joined them around 9am. CEC came after 9.30am.