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LTTE gives house-to-house lessons on voting – for TNA’s House symbol
The LTTE has started a house-to-house campaign to educate voters in Kilinochchi on how to vote - with the model being a specimen ballot paper, significantly with the TNA symbol – House.

LTTE cadres who are fully and openly backing the TNA are giving voters detailed instructions on how to cast their vote and how a vote could get spoilt.

The Sunday Times learns that the LTTE embarked on this campaign after learning that thousands of voters were not familiar with the procedure because there had been no proper general elections in the North for more than two decades.

As for the 70,000 voters who are displaced in Kilinochchi, the LTTE has reportedly told Grama Sevaka officials to ensure they get their polling cards. Apart from the house-to-house campaign, posters have come up in public places on how to cast the vote with a specimen of the ballot paper.

Meanwhile, the LTTE has asked the NGOs in Jaffna to give about Rs. 5,000 each for breakfast and lunch to be provided to voters in the district. At a meeting on Thursday with the NGO council, representing 40 NGOs in the area, LTTE representatives had explained that the voter feeding project would be organised through the Tamil Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO), the funding organisation of the LTTE. According to Jaffna sources, the move is part of the LTTE strategy to win over the voters of the LTTE-held areas.

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