New draft voter list published

bdnews24.com :Despite repeated efforts to increase the number of women voters in Bangladesh, the new draft voter list shows a male majority in the total number of voters.The Election Commission (EC) published the draft list on Saturday.It included 4,368,047 new voters from all districts, upazilas, thanas and unions of Bangladesh in 2015.The number consists of 2,297,895 men (53%) and 2,070,152 women (47%).EC Secretary Md Sirajul Islam spoke at a press briefing at EC office after the draft had been published.The 2013-2014 voter list update included 4,695,650 new voters. It contained 2,629,506 male and 2,066,144 female voters. After the recent amendments, the final voter list of Bangladesh shows 50.37% of male and 49.63% of female voters out of a total number of 96.2mn.