Novel vote counting system to be introduced
 

By Ranil Dharmasena-October 21, 2013, 9:54 pm

 Elections Secretariat has decided to introduce a novel vote counting method and it would be used at the forthcoming Western and Southern Provincial Council elections, secretariat sources said.

Election Commissioner had decided to inform political parties and civil organisations of the new method, sources said, adding that he had already asked the general secretaries of the registered political parties information pertaining to take part in the awareness programme.

The Secretariat has decided to bring in a new counting system in the aftermath of the recent discovery of bundles of marked ballot papers a St. Andrew’s College in Puttalam soon after the Sept. 21 provincial council polls, which were later determined to have been duly counted and entered in the results.

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