vote rigging
51pc seats saw vote rigging, TIB says based on survey in 50 constituencies
The 12th parliamentary election was a one-sided one that was staged to appear competitive, said Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) yesterday.
'Vote rigging': JP, Gonoforum candidates boycott polls in Sylhet-2
Two candidates of the Sylhet-2 constituency have boycotted the election bringing allegations of vote rigging against the Awami League candidate
Even a single case of rigging will stop polling at any centre: CEC
"Trust the system. If anyone of you create any kind of disturbance at a centre … if there is a single case of vote rigging, I will suspend voting in that centre immediately" Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal told candidates in Barishal
The MP craze
"Every scoundrel wants to be a poet; ants are hell-bent on flying / The jungle's tusked boars lay claim to the highest throne."
Barishal city polls / AL men suppressing voters, alleges Tapos
Iqbal Hossain Tapos, Jatiya Party's mayoral candidate in the Barishal City Corporation (BCC) elections, alleged that ruling party supporters were stopping people from going to polling centres to cast votes
Cumilla city polls: 5 jailed for vote rigging, chaos
Five people were jailed for casting fake votes and trying to create chaos at various centres during Cumilla City Corporation election today.
Debates over EVM: Of trust, of technology
With the next parliamentary elections just one and a half years away, fresh debates over using the electronic voting machine in polls have taken the centre stage in the political arena of late.
Vote rigging: Convicted BCL leader gets bail
The High Court today grants bail to a leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) who was jailed for two years for carrying an illegal firearm and vote rigging during Union Parishad election in Hathazari upazila of Chittagong.
UP polls: Clashes halt voting at 5 centres
Voting at five polling centres are suspended due to violence in two districts and 13 BNP chairman candidates boycotted polls in three districts during the fifth phase of union parishad election.
Boycott deflates city polls
Just four hours into the start of voting, BNP’s boycott over irregularities, vote rigging and intimidation of BNP-backed candidates and their workers made the city corporation elections irrelevant.
Vote rigging fest at Dhaka College (video)
Presiding officer looks helpless as BCL men enter all the six polling booths of Dhaka College polling centre and stuff ballot boxes at their will.