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Information of more than 6.3 million citizens has been added to the voter list update process by going door to door. On the other hand, more than 2.3 million voters have been excluded from the list due to death.

This information was given in a notification signed by Abdul Momin Sarkar, Director of the National Identity Registration (NID) Division of the Election Commission (EC) on Saturday.

It said that information of 6.3 million 17 thousand 600 people has been collected so far. Of these, 2.9 million 61 thousand 57 are males; 3.3 million 56 thousand 250 are females. There are 294 third gender voters. Of them, 6.1 million 76 thousand 838 have completed registration by taking photos and fingerprints.

The notification also said that the names of 2.3 million 27 thousand 117 people have been excluded from the voter list due to death. Of them, 1.4 million 4 thousand 72 are males, 9.2 million 781 are females and 326 are third gender.

It is known that the Election Commission has completed the registration process of 522 police stations/upazilas of the country as of April 20. Those who were left out during this period have filled in the information online and gone to the registration center and became voters.

According to the latest update, currently there are 123.732 million voters in the country. The update process is ongoing. The EC will publish the final voter list next June.

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