Dhaka, Jan. 26 -- The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has started examining the quality of electronic voting machines, or EVMs, purchased by the Election Commission seven years ago.

Speaking to the journalists at the Nirbachan Bhaban in Dhaka's Agargaon on Sunday, ACC Assistant Director Nur Alom Siddique said: "An 'enforcement' drive was carried out following a complaint about the purchase of substandard EVMs, bdnews24.com reports.

"As part of this, we conducted a test on three machines stored in the EC office. One of them had a mechanical glitch, the other two were fine."

He said the then-commission had bought around 150,000 EVMs in 2018. Of them, 100,500 machines are alleged to be unusable.

"The EC has stored them at three places. ...