{"id":41143,"date":"2015-02-01T07:03:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T14:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=41143"},"modified":"2015-02-01T07:03:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T14:03:43","slug":"astronomical-increase-in-number-of-voters-2010-vs-2015-in-tamil-areas-how-is-it-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/02\/01\/astronomical-increase-in-number-of-voters-2010-vs-2015-in-tamil-areas-how-is-it-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"ASTRONOMICAL INCREASE IN NUMBER OF VOTERS 2010 VS 2015 IN TAMIL AREAS – HOW IS IT POSSIBLE?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dilrook<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

January 15th, 2015 at 5:46 pm<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not going to take sides here. Mahinda deserves his defeat as he disregarded the majority and served a proven ungrateful minority. But this coupled with other facts cast serious doubts on the validity of Sirisena\u2019s election as president.<\/p>\n

The astronomical increase in the number of persons polled in the districts of Jaffna, Vanni, Batticaloa, Nuwara Eliya, Trincomalee and Digamadulla against 2010 indicates a large number of voters from these districts voted twice. Thanks to the efficient road network today it is possible for a person to vote in both Colombo and Jaffna districts. And in Vanni, Batticaloa, Nuwara Eliya, Trincomalee and Digamadulla districts too with ease. Each of these districts show an increase of 20% in polling compared to 2010 which is only 14% for other districts. It was unthinkable in the past!<\/p>\n

As a side note, it is really unfortunate Mahinda\u2019s excellent road network defeated him, literally.<\/p>\n

As Sirisena won by only 155,436 additional votes (not the lead by the excess over 50%), it is possible to successfully challenge his election based on voter fraud in the districts of Jaffna, Vanni, Batticaloa, Nuwara Eliya, Trincomalee and Digamadulla.<\/p>\n

Those who support Mahinda and wish to see a \u2018safe Sri Lanka\u2019 (as they claim) must take up this challenge instead of verbally defending the former president. In my view, there is substantial merit in such a legal challenge. The current setting of the Supreme Court is also beneficial. If successful, the outcome will not be Mahinda getting elected as president. Instead the outcome will be a situation as if there was no election\u200b”.<\/p>\n

A friend of mine did a small analysis and this is what he came up with. The numbers do not make any sense at all. How can the number of voters increase by 91% in Jaffna and by 71% in Vanni.\u200b These numbers are from Ada Derana.\u00a0 If Dilrook’s hypothesis is true then the Election Commissioner must open investigation to possible voter fraud. \u00a0\u200bSomebody should do a full analysis of the increase in number of voters for all districts and compare and publish the results.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
District<\/strong><\/td>\n2010<\/strong><\/td>\n2015<\/strong><\/td>\nIncrease in Voters<\/strong><\/td>\n% Increase<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Digamadulla<\/td>\n306562<\/td>\n357817<\/td>\n51255<\/td>\n16.71929332<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Batticaloa<\/td>\n211891<\/td>\n256586<\/td>\n44695<\/td>\n21.09339236<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jaffna<\/td>\n178369<\/td>\n340751<\/td>\n162382<\/td>\n91.03711968<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nuwara Eliya<\/td>\n346382<\/td>\n423466<\/td>\n77084<\/td>\n22.25404322<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vanni<\/td>\n105252<\/td>\n180225<\/td>\n74973<\/td>\n71.23190058<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Trinco<\/td>\n162072<\/td>\n195356<\/td>\n33284<\/td>\n20.53655166<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Totals for above Districts<\/td>\n1310528<\/td>\n1754201<\/td>\n443673<\/td>\n33.85452276<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Dilrook\u00a0\u00a0 January 15th, 2015 at 5:46 pm I\u2019m not going to take sides here. Mahinda deserves his defeat as he disregarded the majority and served a proven ungrateful minority. But this coupled with other facts cast serious doubts on the validity of Sirisena\u2019s election as president. The astronomical increase in the number of persons polled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dilrook-kannangara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}