Saturday, 27 March 2004 |
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News Business Features Editorial Security Politics World Letters Sports Obituaries | Call to give affected postal voters another chance National Election Monitoring and Evaluation Centre (NEMEC) Co-ordinating Secretary Amarananda Weerasinghe in a letter to the Elections Commissioner yesterday brought to his notice several incidents of disrupting postal voting at several postal voting centres. He requested the Elections Commissioner to afford the affected postal voters another opportunity to cast their vote. The letter stated that the Postal Voting Centre at the Central Instructions Centre of the Engineering Services which opened at 10.00 a.m. was abruptly closed at 11.30 a.m. allegedly on the orders of the Working Director, thereby depriving a large number of employees from casting their vote. Nuwara Eliya District Bar Association President Sunil Gunasekera has complained that a brother of Minister S.B. Dissanayake and the Chairman of the Hanguranketha Pradeshiya Sabha had intimidated postal voters at the Postal Voting Centres of Hanguranketha Electorate to show them the ballot paper after marking the vote. As a result most voters went away through fear without voting, the letter stated. K.R. Manju and R.A. Premasiri, two postal voters in the Fisheries Ministry had lost the opportunity to cast their vote because they were originally refused application for postal voting because they were not expected to be on election duty and later assigned for election duty, the letter stated. |
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