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All about a centre.

Star Reports
A Daily Slar monitoring of a polling’ centre in the city from 8:30 am to 4 pm counted 837 people entering the centre but official records showed 2010 votes were cast.
A team of newsmen of the paper was at the Ispahan) Girls School centre at Magh bazar and recorded hourly events without any break.
The centre was chosen for the case study considering its vantage location, number of voters from different tiers of society and" less influence of any particular political party compared to other centres.
General information about the centre: •
Number of the centre: Dhaka-10 (189)
Total number of voters registered: 7,593 (4420 male and 3173 female). Number of polling booths: 8 (5 for male and 3 for female).
Number of polling officials: 2 Presiding officers (POs). 8
From Page 1 Assistant Presiding Officers (APOs). 16 Polling Officers
Number of candidates with symbols: 1. Md. Rahman (ladder), 2. S M Ahmed All Joy (moon) 3. Mahbubul Islam (mango) 4. Mra Parveen (bus), 5- Malar (retd) A Mannan (sheaf of paddy) 6. Md Ismail ^Hossain Badal; (pineappW 7 Fakrul Hasan (axe) and 8. Shamsuddin (candle).
Following is a chronological account of what The Daily Star team saw:
8.30 am: The Presiding Officer said. "Only .four votes have been cast till now."
No Polling Agent of any candidate was found present.
Posters of two candidates — Md Rahm,"Mi and Maf. A Mannan — were seen on the wall and gate of the polling centre.
A number of youths aged between 15 to 25. were seen sitting with voters Itst kept on two tables inside the centre.
Taking that 30 people had already gone inside the centre through its only gate on the main road before 8.30 am, The Daily Star's counting started from 31.
The Daily- Star team counted the persons who entered the centre. The number of votes cast was collected every two hours from the polling officials and was compared with our tally.
9.30 am: The number of people who entered the centre's gate was 50.
Volunteers of a particular Kolitical party were seen iring a rickshaw to bring people to the centre from their houses to cast vote.
Some volunteers brought some posters of Maj Mannan and pasted those over all the posters of Md. Rahman at 9.40 am. Some posters were pasted in walls inside the centre.
A police jeep arrived at the same time and one Police Officer was overheard saying to the volunteers, "More voters should be brought here."
10 am: As per polling officials count, votes cast were 116. 112 male and 4 female while The Dally Star counted 132 people entering the centre.
Two army Jeeps came to the spot at around 10,20 am.
11.05 am: Dally Star counted 250 people entering the centre. An old lady. Fer-dous Akhter Jahan (60) commented to The Daily Star. T have cast my vote •since 1974. This time they sent me a rickshaw and here 1 am."
11.35 am: A car, packed with young people, stopped and checked with the volunteers if everything was in order and left.
12 Noon: Official figure-338 (males-317 and females 21). The Daily Star tally: 383.
12.10 pm: A microbus car rylng newsmen of KBS TV of Korea arrived at the centre Seeing them, the volunteers promptly made a queue from the gate. The KBS journalists , took a video, went Inside and
talked to polling officials and left after 10 minutes.
12.15pm: BNP candidate Maj. Mannan came to the spot in a Jeep. Almost al! the volunteers entered inside the centre with him. When he came out after. 10 minutes, he said. 'I am expecting a good turnout of voters. 1 have visited many centres. All are peaceful and a good number of voters are casting their votes. I expect there will be 50 per cent turnout of voters. Non-partisan voters are not coming because they are not taking risk. Only party followers are coming.
One person accompanying Maj Mannan was heard calling someone in a cellular phone saying. "Start from now."
One volunteer was seen asking a youth to come to the centre to cast his vote. The youth replied. "I can only come if you give me 500 taka.’’
1 pm: Daily Star tally-520 persons.
1.45 pm: Four army vehicles arrived. All volunteers came out from the centre. The Daily Star tally was 700 then.
2.30 pm: Official figure-1334 (1237 male and 91 female). Daily Star tally-690 persons. This is the first time that significant difference showed up between The Daily Star tally and the official figure.
When one Daily Star reporter went in to collect the official figure, he saw that on one table of an APO in booth No. 3. a ballot book was ready with voters' names and numbers while the voters were not there. The reporter also saw one youth stamping two ballot papers in front of the polling officials, who looked shaky.
3.10 pm: Daily Star taliy-755persons.
The flow of people entering the centre decreased further.
3.25 pm: Our reporter went In to collect the official figure. He saw one person stamping a thick bundle of ballot papers in front of polling officials. The reporter brought this to the notice of the Presiding Officer, who looked nervous. Immediately, the volunteers rushed there and gheraoed the reporter and began interrogating him while the police remained Indifferent. Before things could go worse, two polling officers intervened and the volunteers withdrew.
One officer was telling the reporter. Please cool down. You understand, they are young people we can not do anything although we un derstand what is going on here "
4 pm: Official figure sho wed 2010 votes cast; 1884 male and 126 female. Daily Star tally 837 persons entered the centre
The official figures showed that 26 per cent votes were cast, but as per The Daily Star count, the turnoni was I 1 |>er cent