19 March 2008 UNDP supports voter registration in Bangladesh | | Kemal Dervis visits a voter registration center in Rajapur, Jalakathi, Bangladesh |
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part of Bangladesh’s drive to improve democratic governance, UNDP is working with the country's Election Commission to create
a new voter registration list for Bangladesh's estimated 90 million voters ahead of national elections, expected to take place
before the end of this year. The new lists will include digital photographs of each voter in a bid to help prevent fraud and
the duplication of records.
UNDP Administrator Kemal Derviş toured one of these voter registration centres
while on a three-day visit to Bangladesh this week. “I had an opportunity to see with my own eyes the resilience of the
people of Bangladesh in the face of considerable economic hardship” he said.
For more information on Kemal Derviş's
visit to Bangladesh in the press of 19 March, please visit:
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