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Multiple polling cards:

Elections Commissioner takes action

Elections Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayake has taken steps to annul any additional polling cards issued to voters of the Western Province, after authorities found that some had been provided with more than one polling card. Issuing a media release yesterday, Dissanayake said that if any voter tries to cast their ballot in more than one location, during the Western Provincial Council polls on April 25, they would be dealt with according to the law.


Dayananda Dissanayake

The Election Secretariat also said that they had detected 20 such persons in the Colombo district, who had received two polling cards each.

The Department has made arrangements, to enable these voters to cast their vote at a single chosen location, authorities added.

They said that, many such cases had been detected since the computerised advanced data collection system, came into force during 2008. The controversy regarding, multiple polling cards issued to a single person, in the run up to the Western PC polls, gained media spotlight since a few days back.

However, the ?Daily News? reliably learns that authorities were aware of the issue much earlier and had already taken measures to quell the situation.

Accordingly, the Elections Department has taken steps to inform all voters who have received more than one polling card, to inform their present location of residence and the preffered voting center within one week.

If the voters fail to respond during this time, the authorities are to decide on the location while taking steps to annul the extra polling cards, if any.

According to sources, the flaw in the polling card issue had been detected, after the authorities took steps to install a computerised data base system in 2007. Later, the system was further advanced in 2008.

Here the authorities had found that, some voters, specially in the Colombo District had multiple residential locations, due to issues such as ownership of several houses, frequent changes in lodging, flaws in registration such as giving false addresses to secure admission of children to affluent schools etc.

Thus the latest measures by the election authorities, to install a comprehensive data base is expected to minimise such flaws at future elections.

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