The recent image of a Jubo League leader carrying a ballot unit panel of an electronic voting machine (EVM) after snatching it during a by-poll in Chattogram’s Boalkhali upazila is the latest addition to a growing list of examples as to why EVMs may not be suitable for conducting a free and fair election in Bangladesh. Neither the assistant presiding officer nor the on-duty members of the law enforcement agencies were able to prevent the mighty Jubo League’s union level leader Nirmalendu Dey Sumon from taking the EVM ballot unit panel away.  They were unable to recover it either; Awami League’s union President Ratan Chowdhury recovered the panel and returned it to the polling centre.  This incident occurred only a few days after Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Habibul Awal said no one has yet made a sound and objective complaint about the use of EVMs and the commission has taken a stand in favour of EVMs after conducting several tests. Would the CEC now, at the l...