Wednesday, December 07, 2011The astounding declaration made by a former Examiner of Questioned Documents P.H.Manatunga that the 62 ballot papers found after the presidential election of 2010 near the Ratnapura Technical College ‘were originals printed on security paper’ calls for immediate investigation by authoritative independent persons.
A letter from Manatunga to this effect was tabled in parliament on Thursday by Deputy Leader of the UNP Karu Jayasuriya.
The ballot papers had been marked in favour of Sarath Fonseka who lost the election to Mahinda Rajapaksa. Fonseka polled 4,173, 185 votes (40 per cent of the votes cast) as against 6,015,934 votes (57 percent) by the winner Mahinda Rajapaksa. Read More »
