The Election Commission today introduced an online application system for the registration, correction and replacement of voters' polling areas.

The system allows new voters to register online and existing voters to correct information and apply for area change.

"We have introduced the new system today aiming to make registration, correction and replacement process easier," said Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad at a press briefing at the EC's conference centre in Dhaka today.

The application forms will be available at www.ec.org.bd.

The online system mainly aims to ensure that all the existing voters can complete correcting their information, if needed, before the EC prepares the smart NID (national identity) cards, officials at the commission said. 

Currently, there are around 9.61crorer voters in Bangladesh. The EC has recently taken initiative to provide Smart NID cards to around 9 crores voters by 2016. The rest of the voters will be provided later.

Top level officials of EC and NID wing were present at the press briefing.