Mon, Dec 04, 2006 - Page 5 News List

Protests bring business, transportation to a halt

AP , DHAKA

"I am hopeful of finding a solution," he said.

The Jan. 21 poll date, set by the Election Commission, has been rejected by the alliance, although the parties in the alliance have not said if they plan to boycott it.

A report released on Saturday by the Dhaka office of the US-based National Democratic Institute (NDI) said 13 percent of the names on the current voting list were "errors" or duplications.

Most of the duplicate registrations had occurred because of voters moving but not changing their address registration, the NDI said in a statement.

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