News and Comment Wholesale Vote Rigging in Local Elections: It is not the Death of Democracy as claimed by the Grieving Advocates of Democracy, Rather it is Democracy
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News Elections for the posts of mayors and councilors in Dhaka North, Dhaka South and Chittagong City Corporations were held on April 28, 2015. Forty-eight candidates contested for the three mayoral posts while there were 1,188 candidates in total for the post of councilors in the three corporations. Stained by accusations of widespread fraud, polling booth capture and voter intimidation in the presence of election officers and law-enforcing agencies, the…
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