Notice to postal voters

Elections Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayake in a release yesterday said the last date for the applications to vote by post at the forthcoming Sabaragamuwa and North Central Provincial Council Elections has been fixed to July 10 and this date will not be extended.

The release said: Since the election is confined to a limited area, the facility to vote by post will be restricted to those officers and employees who will be deployed for election duty.

The period stipulated in the Provincial Councils Elections Act for submission of applicants was 10 days from the date of publication of the nomination notice. As the exhibition of the electoral registers was delayed the last date for acceptance of applications has been fixed for July 10, 2008. This date will not be extended.

Applications certified by the Certifying Officers should be sent to respective Returning Officers. Priority Service labels can be affixed to the envelope in which applications are sent. If labels are not available or not sufficient when words “Election documents sent free of postage” can be written on the envelope.

The register that will apply for this elections is the 2007 register which was certified on 30th May, 2008. The registers of the two Councils are exhibited at the District Secretariats in Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa, Ratnapura and Kegalle and at the Postal Headquarters, D.R. Wijewardene Mawatha, Colombo 10.

The register are also exhibited at places determined by the Heads of the Armed Forces, Inspector General of Police and the Commandant of the Civil Security Force.

Certifying Officers are requested to forward applications as when they are certified without keeping them to be posted together just before the closing date. Applications received after July 10 are liable to be rejected, the release said.