{"id":47143,"date":"2015-08-19T14:49:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T21:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=47143"},"modified":"2015-08-19T14:49:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T21:49:52","slug":"vote-rigging-in-sri-lanka-sinhalese-defeated-national-hero-twice-or-unp-rigged-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/08\/19\/vote-rigging-in-sri-lanka-sinhalese-defeated-national-hero-twice-or-unp-rigged-the-election\/","title":{"rendered":"VOTE RIGGING IN SRI LANKA- SINHALESE DEFEATED NATIONAL HERO TWICE OR UNP RIGGED THE ELECTION?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

NUMBERS GAME AND NUMBERS DON’T LIE:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

On 8 January at the\u00a0 Presidential\u00a0 Election, President Mahinda Rajapakse garnered 5.8 million votes as against Aug 18 at the General Election the UPFA won only 4.7 million, a massive drop of 1.1million. On 8 January President Maithireeepala Sirisena secured 6.2 million votes with the combined support of some sections of SLFP, TNA, JVP, SLMC, JATHIKA HELA URUMAYA, compared with Aug 18, at the General Election\u00a0 the coalition secured:<\/strong><\/p>\n

UNFGG\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5.01 mn<\/p>\n

TNA\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0.52\u00a0 mn<\/p>\n

JVP\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0.54\u00a0\u00a0 mn<\/p>\n

OTHERS\u00a0\u00a0 0.28\u00a0\u00a0 mn<\/p>\n

TOTAL\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 6.35\u00a0\u00a0 mn ( an increase of 130,000 votes for UNFGG whereas UPFA votes reduced by 1.10 mn.).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many reliable websites are reporting that two sons of relatives of Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe have entered the voting centres.\u00a0\u00a0 Mr Yadamani Gunawardene ( son of Mr Dinesh Gunawardene), Messrs Bandula Gunawardene and Gamini Lokuge have lodged\u00a0 complaints\u00a0 with the District Secretary of the Department. Similary, several defeated candidates of UPFA have lodged complaints with the authorities regarding the change of their preferential votes, after the closure of voting.<\/strong><\/p>\n

MASSIVE MAJORITIES FOR UNP:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The above vote manipulation did translate results in favour of UNP.\u00a0 Majority of seats were won by them with very high majorities.\u00a0\u00a0 This was caused by the reduction of UPFA votes as explained in the\u00a0 in comparative analysis.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

The Western Puppets of UNP have already praised the government for conducting a free and fair election.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

QUESTIONS TO ASK:<\/strong><\/p>\n

How did UNP manage to increase its votes in excess of 6.1mn secured in January, in spite of allegations of massive fruads, inefficiencies committed by the government within 6 months period?<\/strong><\/p>\n

How UNP\u00a0 prevented UPFA voters casting their votes, it is unimaginable that these voters who\u00a0 were hightly pumped up and energised to BRING BACK MAHINDA, refrained from voting unless a large scale vote rigging had been carried out by the\u00a0 three Musketeers RANIL\/MS\/CBK.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Did UNP interfere with the preferential voting, as the counting process was not foolproof.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are three processes involved in the counting of Preferential votes.\u00a0 They are:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stage 1 – Counting of the number of ballot papers in each box and transferring them to the through.<\/p>\n

Stage II – Sorting and counting the ballot papers according to the valid votes received and the preparation of the statement of votes received by each party and group in the Electoral District.<\/p>\n

Stage III – Recording the preferences received by each candidate in the Tally Sheet and transferring them through a series of Summary Sheets into a District List for a party or a group, which gives the total of preferences received by each candidate in the Electoral District.<\/p>\n

The Three Musketeers have identified a major area of weakness in verifying preferential votes, where neither Election Officials nor Election Monitors were\u00a0 present.\u00a0 <\/strong>This could have allowed, MS loyalists to change votes of their candidates, at the expense of\u00a0 MR candidates.<\/p>\n

The Mahinda Rajapakse loyalists must raise an awareness campaign immediately on these issues, coupled with legal actions against vote rigging.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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By M D P DISSANAYAKE NUMBERS GAME AND NUMBERS DON’T LIE: On 8 January at the\u00a0 Presidential\u00a0 Election, President Mahinda Rajapakse garnered 5.8 million votes as against Aug 18 at the General Election the UPFA won only 4.7 million, a massive drop of 1.1million. On 8 January President Maithireeepala Sirisena secured 6.2 million votes with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47143","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=47143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}