In Bogra, women who have given mehedi in their hands before the election are struggling to get their fingerprints on the electronic voting machine (EVM).
Due to this, their voting is being delayed. Many of them are returning home and picking up henna and going to the polls again. However, some of them went back without voting due to annoyance. Such incidents have been reported in the polling stations of wards 9 and 10 of Bogra municipal elections on Sunday. Went to the high school center to vote.
But his fingerprints did not match the EVM machine. After repeated attempts, polling officials told him that the color of the henna on his fingers did not match. They asked him to pick up the color of henna on his finger. Nazmun Nahar said, "Later I returned home, washed my hands several times with soap and went to the polling station again at around 2 pm."
Then the fingerprints matched and I was able to vote. Rajedur Rahman Raju, a businessman who came to the center to cast his vote, said that Sabina Yasmin, a female councilor candidate of wards 7, 8 and 9, also had the same problem in 2015.
Her fingerprints did not match because of the color of henna on her fingers. That's why Sabina Yasmin couldn't vote at Central High School.
Later he went home, washed his hands and went to vote. Bogra Central High School Center Presiding Officer. Zakirul Islam said that to his knowledge, the fingerprints of the two women did not match due to the presence of henna in their hands. As a result, they could not cast their votes. Arifur Rahman, a councilor candidate of Bogra's 10th ward, said that many women have returned from the Thanthaniya Nurun Ala Nur polling station due to mismatch of fingerprints.
I can't remember the names of many who went back at the moment. But I remember the name of a man named Tahera Banu, who could not vote even after trying three times.
Because his fingerprints did not match. In a booth opened for women voters in the center, an official named Yasin Ali, who took the vote, said that there are many problems in matching the fingerprints of women voters. That is why their voting is being delayed.
