JUCSU results unlikely before noon as weary officials struggle with tally: EC

Counting of votes in the Jahangirnagar University Central Students’ Union (JUCSU) and hall councils elections is crawling on slowly, with final results unlikely before Friday noon. Election Commission officials say the delay is due to exhaustion among counting staff and the large number of ballots remaining to be processed. Ballot boxes were brought from hall centres to the Senate Bhaban after polling ended at 5pm on Thursday. At around 2:45am on Friday, Election Commission member Kh Lutful Elahi told bdnews24.com that only the hall council ballots are being counted currently. Once that is complete, the count for the central council will start. He remarked that it looks unlikely the counting will be finished before the Jummah prayer. Lutful also said...