Electronic Voting Machine may be introduced during Dhaka City Corporation elections considering multiple advantages of the modern system of conducting vote, an Election Commissioner said Monday, reports UNB.

"We may try to use the electronic voting machine in the upcoming DCC election as it has various advantages," M Sohul Hussain told reporters at the Election Commission Secretariat.

Sohul Hussain, who just returned from a visit to India after observing the national elections there, said India has gone for electronic voting since 1982. "In this system, ballot papers and boxes are not required for casting vote."

Describing the advantages of this system, the Election Commissioner said literate and illiterate voters both can easily cast their vote through electronic voting machine if they are simply shown the system of usage.

Explaining his election observation in India, he said the Indian people were casting vote without untoward situation being created. "In Rajasthan and Joypur, we have seen that there are no festivities of election. Nobody is concerned with the polls," he said.

After visiting 7-8 places of both rural and urban areas in India, Suhol Hussain experienced that the polling was held in a free and fair manner across the country.

"We saw some micro-election observers deployed in some critical or vulnerable polling areas to watch the elections and they were maintaining full connection with the Election Commission," he said, adding that during by-elections and some upazila elections at home, Bangladesh Election Commission also deployed some officials to monitor the polls. Quoting an Indian Election Commission official, Sohul said India used some 80 percent of Bangladeshi election-management systems at their national polls considering its standards. "We were very delighted to hear the official''s words."

About the Independent Election Commission Secretariat Act, Sohul said the commission would soon discuss with the government the matter of bringing some amendments to the amended act as there are some flaws found in the section 5of the laws.

"The law must be amended as it is not made for today," he said, adding that the commission would not be able to work properly in future if it is not done.

Replying to a question he said the commission decided to sit in dialogue with the political parties to discuss various issues, but the schedules were not fixed yet.