The Election Commission is undertaking a pilot project to gather polls results from poling centres through sms.
Election commissioner Sohul Hossain said on Tuesday the experimental project will be applied at the Narshingdi mayor by-elections.
Lutful Kabir from BUET Institute of Information and Technology said they had developed a software that would work in three steps to collect and calculate the result.
In the first step, the assistant presiding officer will SMS the results of their centre to the office of the returning officer.
The central database placed there will then send another text to the assistant presiding officer asking for confirmation of the result.
Once the result is confirmed through a third SMS, it will be stored in the database and added up.
Sohul said if the pilot project succeeded, the commission would consider applying it to bigger elections.
Lutful Kabir said EVMs can spell out polls results immediately.
"But summing up the results from individual centres takes a lot of time. The SMS system will help us calculate the results much more quickly," he said.
Election commissioner Sohul Hossain said on Tuesday the experimental project will be applied at the Narshingdi mayor by-elections.
Lutful Kabir from BUET Institute of Information and Technology said they had developed a software that would work in three steps to collect and calculate the result.
In the first step, the assistant presiding officer will SMS the results of their centre to the office of the returning officer.
The central database placed there will then send another text to the assistant presiding officer asking for confirmation of the result.
Once the result is confirmed through a third SMS, it will be stored in the database and added up.
Sohul said if the pilot project succeeded, the commission would consider applying it to bigger elections.
Lutful Kabir said EVMs can spell out polls results immediately.
"But summing up the results from individual centres takes a lot of time. The SMS system will help us calculate the results much more quickly," he said.
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