Elections Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayake will divulge a special counter election malpractices strategy tomorrow to presiding officers, on how to combat polls malpractices that will have an adverse impact on the final results of the presidential elections scheduled for Tuesday (26).
“He will divulge his plan to election officers tomorrow because then those who are planning to involve in polls malpractices will not have adequate time to adjust to the Commissioner’s plan”, elections department sources said.
“Election monitors and political parties have been warning the elections commissioner about various incidents that might occur on the eve of the election and the commissioner has formulated several plans to combat these malpractices. He revealed some of the plans during the press conference on Friday but he still has some other plans up his sleeve,” said the Secretary of Civil and Political Rights of Network for Election Monitoring (NEM) Anura Karunarathna.
The Elections Commissioner has lost faith in the police and other government officials who should help him to conduct a free and fair election. That is the reason he is keeping his contingency plans to himself, department sources said.
Meanwhile, the Election Commissioner’s decision to retain temporary identity cards after the holders exercised their franchise has upset many plans to rig the vote said Campaign for Free and Fair Elections spokesman, Keerthi Tennakoon.
He added that there was a plan to use temporary identity cards for mass scale rigging.
“We received information that around 50 000 fake temporary ID cards have been turned out but most of them have been withdrawn after the Election Commissioner announced that temporary IDs will be collected. If they are detected the Grama Niladhari and the Divisional Secretary will also be punished,” he said. “If someone creates an incident that would prevent voters from casting their vote he has decided to annul the vote. The Commissioner has nothing to lose and I think that his methods to prevent election rigging would minimize the malpractices on the 26th.”
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“He will divulge his plan to election officers tomorrow because then those who are planning to involve in polls malpractices will not have adequate time to adjust to the Commissioner’s plan”, elections department sources said.
“Election monitors and political parties have been warning the elections commissioner about various incidents that might occur on the eve of the election and the commissioner has formulated several plans to combat these malpractices. He revealed some of the plans during the press conference on Friday but he still has some other plans up his sleeve,” said the Secretary of Civil and Political Rights of Network for Election Monitoring (NEM) Anura Karunarathna.
The Elections Commissioner has lost faith in the police and other government officials who should help him to conduct a free and fair election. That is the reason he is keeping his contingency plans to himself, department sources said.
Meanwhile, the Election Commissioner’s decision to retain temporary identity cards after the holders exercised their franchise has upset many plans to rig the vote said Campaign for Free and Fair Elections spokesman, Keerthi Tennakoon.
He added that there was a plan to use temporary identity cards for mass scale rigging.
“We received information that around 50 000 fake temporary ID cards have been turned out but most of them have been withdrawn after the Election Commissioner announced that temporary IDs will be collected. If they are detected the Grama Niladhari and the Divisional Secretary will also be punished,” he said. “If someone creates an incident that would prevent voters from casting their vote he has decided to annul the vote. The Commissioner has nothing to lose and I think that his methods to prevent election rigging would minimize the malpractices on the 26th.”
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