{"id":46991,"date":"2015-08-14T22:54:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T04:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=46991"},"modified":"2015-08-14T15:53:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T22:53:33","slug":"cheating-at-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/08\/14\/cheating-at-the-election\/","title":{"rendered":"CHEATING AT THE ELECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well Wisher <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

We are going to an election once more and I hope many people especially the UPFA people have learnt lessons from the last one. Dilrook Kanangara and Ajit Randeniya and others have all pointed out that the last election was cheated.(See attached articles).<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/07\/01\/2014-electoral-roll-was-rigged\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Yet no one contested the results. I think it was because President Mahinda Rajapakse was tired and just wanted to retire and go back to his village. However he is back because many lakhs of people visited him and were begging him to contest again.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the ways in which there can be cheating at the next Election :<\/p>\n

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  1. At the polling booth by stuffing the ballot boxes.<\/li>\n
  2. At the counting office by inserting false ballots.<\/li>\n
  3. Use of names of people not registered to vote.<\/li>\n
  4. Use of names of minors or dead people.<\/li>\n
  5. Use of false I.D. cards.<\/li>\n
  6. People especially Tamils voting in two places at the same time. Otherwise one cannot explain how the number of voters in Jaffna and Vanni increased so dramatically.<\/li>\n
  7. Cheating at the counting computers in the University of Colombo. It was said that the computer which was counting and adding was stopped thrice in the course of counting. It is very easy to program computers to count\/add in a variety of ways. In USA it is well known that George Bush was elected twice due to computer cheating. In case of Bush opponent, Al Gore, it was a small margin which was then decided by the courts which awarded the election to George Bush. UPFA should be very wary of the Final Counting and ask for manual counting to double check the computer results.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I hope the next Election too not lost due to lack of attention to stop cheating. Yahapalanaya group seem to be desperate and will not stop at anything to win if they can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Well Wisher We are going to an election once more and I hope many people especially the UPFA people have learnt lessons from the last one. Dilrook Kanangara and Ajit Randeniya and others have all pointed out that the last election was cheated.(See attached articles). https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/07\/01\/2014-electoral-roll-was-rigged\/ 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\/ Yet no one contested the results. I think […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46991","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=46991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}