Lanka News Web exclusively report the finding of a large heap of marked ballot papers favouring General Sarath Fonseka in a garbage dump near the Technical College in Ratnapura.
UNP Member of Parliament Thalatha Athukorala reported this incident to our web site a few hours ago. She has found a large number of marked ballot papers being set on fire at this dump.
The best find in the catch is that more than 60% of the ballot papers taken into the MP’s hands are marked in favour of General Sarath Fonseka.
All these ballot papers bear the signature and the official stamp of the officials who conducted the Presidential Election on the 26th January. It was also noted that the election officials have been so generous to reject most of the valid votes marked for General Fonseka and they have bundled them into 65 papers into a bundle whereas the usual practice it to bundle them into 50 papers per bundle.
By doing this they have counted 65 ballot papers as 50 since the final count is take in bundles of 50. 
MP Thalatha Athukorala along with the Deputy Leader of UNP Karu Jayasuriya and other party members have already gone to meet the Chief Priests of Malwatte, Asgiriya and Amarapura to show them the first undisputable and clear evidence of the “Mother of All Poll Riggings in Sri Lanka”.
Meanwhile, upon inquiring of this find, a senior officer at the Department of Elections told us that they have not received any complaint in regard to this find in Ratnapura.
However, he mentioned that it is a violation of the Elections Law to destroy any ballot paper before six months of any elections and therefore, the Commissioner of Elections will have to immediately investigate into it, if such a complaint is made to the Department.
The joint opposition is making arrangements to show these evidences of the highest order to the voting population in Sri Lanka and also to the foreign missions in the country during the coming days.
Source - http://www.lankanewsweb.com/news/EN_2010_02_02_002.html
UNP Member of Parliament Thalatha Athukorala reported this incident to our web site a few hours ago. She has found a large number of marked ballot papers being set on fire at this dump. The best find in the catch is that more than 60% of the ballot papers taken into the MP’s hands are marked in favour of General Sarath Fonseka.
All these ballot papers bear the signature and the official stamp of the officials who conducted the Presidential Election on the 26th January. It was also noted that the election officials have been so generous to reject most of the valid votes marked for General Fonseka and they have bundled them into 65 papers into a bundle whereas the usual practice it to bundle them into 50 papers per bundle. By doing this they have counted 65 ballot papers as 50 since the final count is take in bundles of 50. MP Thalatha Athukorala along with the Deputy Leader of UNP Karu Jayasuriya and other party members have already gone to meet the Chief Priests of Malwatte, Asgiriya and Amarapura to show them the first undisputable and clear evidence of the “Mother of All Poll Riggings in Sri Lanka”.
Meanwhile, upon inquiring of this find, a senior officer at the Department of Elections told us that they have not received any complaint in regard to this find in Ratnapura.
However, he mentioned that it is a violation of the Elections Law to destroy any ballot paper before six months of any elections and therefore, the Commissioner of Elections will have to immediately investigate into it, if such a complaint is made to the Department. The joint opposition is making arrangements to show these evidences of the highest order to the voting population in Sri Lanka and also to the foreign missions in the country during the coming days.
Source - http://www.lankanewsweb.com/news/EN_2010_02_02_002.html
