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Special buses for uncleared area voters
Voters living in LTTE- eld areas in the north will be transported at state expense to vote on April 2 at polling booths established in cleared areas.

Reports said Rs. 5 million had been released to the Kilinochchi Government agent to make arrangements for the transport of voters from Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu and other areas of Wanni to cluster polling booths at Muhamalai in the north or Omanthai in the south.

Sixty-one polling booths were being set up in cleared areas. Some 63,000 voters in uncleared areas have been informed that buses will leave at 7 a.m. They have been advised to bring their national identity card or other identification documents and not to carry unnecessary baggage.

Arrangements are also being made to give them tea. Meanwhile the LTTE has also drawn up plans for voters from uncleared areas to proceed to cleared areas on election day. The LTTE is to provide tokens by which voters could obtain free meals and accommodation in schools and temples of the cleared areas.
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