Donald Trump has previously clashed with the agency over his executive orders. President of the United States Donald Trump The last two sitting commissioners of the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), the independent federal agency responsible for helping ensure safe and secure elections, were fired on Thursday, US media reported.The EAC is designed to operate as … Read more
NEW DELHI: Nearly 700,000 voters have been added to West Bengal’s electoral rolls ahead of assembly elections, officials said, but detailed population data is yet to be released. election commission of india.PTI quoted a senior official as saying that of the new voters, around 3.22 lakh people will vote in the first phase, while nearly … Read more
In Bangladesh, the Special Intensification Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll has sparked sharp political controversy amid allegations that large numbers of people are at risk of being omitted from the electoral rolls. But in the Tibetan settlement of Kalimpong, many residents have very different recollections of the experience of voter verification — a process … Read more
NEW DELHI: Over 20 million voters from 12 states and Union Territories (UTs) have been included during the second phase of the Special Intensified Revision (SIR), bringing the net deletion of voters to nearly 52 million, or 10.2 per cent of the total electorate of around 510 million when the SIR begins on October 27, … Read more
KOLKATA: Mina Jalal, 77, who never knew she was eligible to be a voter in her life, is on trial under the SIR. The elector of the Chowringhee parliamentary constituency died on March 27, days after the Electoral Commission included him in the final list for April 9. Although she qualified, neither her husband Jalaluddin … Read more