Dhaka, Feb. 4 -- The Election Commission (EC) has extended the deadline for updating the voter list until April 27 to accommodate people whose data was either not collected or omitted in the latest update process.

"More importantly, the process to be a voter through online will continue all time," Election Commission Senior Secretary Akhtar Ahmed said at a press briefing on primary data collected for updating the voter list at Nirbachan Bhaban in city's Agargaon on Tuesday.

He said their field-level officials collected data on 49,70,388 people, who are eligible to be voters, till Monday (last date) of the door-to-door data collection campaign that started on January 20 simultaneously in the country.

"Those whose data were collected wil...