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Over 60,000 postal vote applications rejected

Over 60,000 persons who applied for postal voting in respect of  Thursday’s parliamentary elections had their applications rejected,  according to the Department of Elections.

Some  61,678 applications which were rejected and  22,861 of these  were late applications. Most of the late applications were reform the Kurunegala district . The highest number of applications rejected from a polling district also were from the Kurunegala district.

Poll monitors claimed that some of the applications had been deliberately delady inorder to avoid some of the public servansants from voting. A total of 499,971 had applied for voting and only  and lu  415,432 were accepted.

(SEE  CHART GIVEN BELOW FOR DETAILS)

 

 

 

No. of Registered Voters

No. of Applications Recieved

No. of Applications Accepted

No. of Applications Rejected

Late Applications

Total No. of Applications Recieved

01 - COLOMBO

1,521,854

22,168

20,603

1,565

625

22,793

02 - GAMPAHA

1,474,464

34,046

32,505

1,541

1,310

35,356

03 - KALUTARA

813,233

24,417

21,953

2,464

1,058

25,475

04 - MAHANUWARA

970,456

37,614

30,405

7,209

1,894

39,508

05 - MATALE

342,684

15,752

14,376

1,376

1,117

16,869

06 - NUWARA-ELIYA

457,137

12,299

10,195

2,104

-

12,299

07 - GALLE

761,815

28,993

25,328

3,665

1,718

30,711

08 - MATARA

578,858

18,627

15,739

2,888

1,108

19,735

09 - HAMBANTOTA

421,186

15,988

14,032

1,956

-

15,988

10 - JAFFNA

721,359

8,303

7,464

839

94

8,397

11 - VANNI

266,975

5,033

4,714

319

478

5,511

12 - BATTICALOA

333,644

6,538

6,269

269

57

6,595

13 - DIGAMADULLA

420,835

20,002

16,760

3,242

-

20,002

14 - TRINCOMALEE

241,133

12,692

12,225

467

372

13,064

15 - KURUNEGALA

1,183,649

51,237

43,281

7,956

7,152

58,389

16 - PUTTALAM

495,575

9,674

8,060

1,614

365

10,039

17 - ANURADHAPURA

579,261

46,111

40,584

5,527

-

46,111

18 - POLONNARUWA

280,337

17,033

14,556

2,477

891

17,924

19 - BADULLA

574,814

28,622

23,707

4,915

1,561

30,183

20 - MONERAGALA

300,642

17,519

13,289

4,230

1,142

18,661

21 - RATNAPURA

734,651

18,848

15,801

3,047

1,225

20,073

22 - KEGALLE

613,938

25,594

23,586

2,008

694

26,288

TOTAL

14,088,500

477,110

415,432

61,678

22,861

499,971

 

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