Complaints were pouring into the Elections Secretariat and media institutions on missing names of voters in the electoral register, multiple issuance of polling cards and incorrect NIC numbers while a relatively violent and hotly contested PC polls campaign is reaching climax.
The elections propaganda campaign of Saturday’s Western Provincial Council election ends at midnight today.
The alleged blunders made by the main state elections authority, the Elections Secretariat aggravated the situation when more than 100,000 voters received more than one polling card while thousands of others had been given incorrect NIC numbers on their cards.
To make the situation worse thousands of voters in Colombo, Gampaha and Kalutara have found that their names had been struck off the electoral register denying them their free franchise.
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