Preparing for the polls

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Ballot boxes for the PC election which is to be held tomorrow were transported under police guard from 25 counting centers to the polling booths in Trincomalee this morning. Amadoru Amarajeewa

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Sri Lankan Friday, 07 September 2012 08:56 AM

hope it will be a fair election this time.

CLH Friday, 07 September 2012 09:15 AM

Heavy police guard, yet I suspect the miracle of ballot papers from nowhere will have the last word.

willows Friday, 07 September 2012 09:16 AM

computer jil mart???

Just Another Citizen Friday, 07 September 2012 08:54 AM

Free and fair? Time will tell.

Labby Friday, 07 September 2012 09:17 AM

When will we ever get to use transparent ballot boxes like other countries do? Why does everything in our system have a question mark hanging over it?

Calistus Jayatilleke Friday, 07 September 2012 10:14 AM

Just a big show only to hide the real jilmart. Moat people have lost faith in this so called voting under the five star Demo-Crazy.

Nishantha Rajapaksa Friday, 07 September 2012 11:52 AM

we now the outcome

concerned Friday, 07 September 2012 12:32 PM

Is it empty?

asoka abeywardena Friday, 07 September 2012 06:25 PM

yes it is empty...but a duplicate boxes with full of ballot papers are waiting somewhere...of course it is sealed...

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