{"id":73123,"date":"2017-12-25T23:44:12","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T05:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=73123"},"modified":"2017-12-25T16:34:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T23:34:35","slug":"election-commissioner-mahinda-deshapriya-is-a-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/12\/25\/election-commissioner-mahinda-deshapriya-is-a-robot\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya \u00a0is a Robot."},"content":{"rendered":"

By Charles.S.Perera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

A Robot is a machine with many parts, which is programmed\u00a0 to carry out\u00a0 complex tasks.\u00a0 A mechanical Robot is\u00a0 programmed. It works only according to its programme. If it were to be asked to rectify any error the Robot cannot do \u00a0it,\u00a0 as it is not programmed to rectify\u00a0 errors.<\/p>\n

Commissioner of elections Mahinda Deshapriya is a programmed mechanical Robot. The \u00a0whole Department of the Election Commission is a part of this\u00a0 vast programmed robot. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The\u00a0 programme is there and nothing can stop the Robot from follows its course according to its programme. It is like a steamroller if your foot gets caught in front of it you will get crushed under it.\u00a0 The Mahinda Deshapriya Robot is the same.<\/p>\n

There are no human beings in the Mahinda Deshapriya Robot who can detect human errors and correct them. Because it is not programmed for \u00a0such corrective measures.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Local Government election was anticipated with great hope. The \u00a0Provincial Councils\u00a0 which had no elected representatives\u00a0 for two years since the election of UNP-SLFP Government may finally\u00a0 have the elections in February, 2018.<\/p>\n

Sirisena-Ranil Yahapalanaya had shelved known democratic processes replacing them\u00a0 with\u00a0 their own system of democracy to invent reasons for delaying elections. It even introduced bills in Parliament to circumvent judicial decisions that interdicted the governments\u00a0 from delaying Local Government elections.<\/p>\n

Yet this long awaited\u00a0 local government elections after all this \u00a0long strenuous \u00a0demands, the elections for the Provincial Councils\u00a0 have been made\u00a0 difficult by the mockery of a Election Commission turned\u00a0 into being a programmed Robot. A Robot which cannot accept human errors and rectify them.<\/p>\n

The Robot had been very severe with the SLPodujana Peramuna which had the largest number of nomination lists of candidates rejected. The absurdity of this robots rejection programme can be seen\u00a0 by taking one rejected Nomination list of the SLPP.<\/p>\n

It was rejected for not having the required per centage of women candidates.<\/p>\n

How did this happen ?<\/p>\n

On the Nomination list the sex of the candidate is apparently shown with\u00a0 F\u00a0 before the name, for a female, or M for a male. But in this column of Fs and Ms. one name of a woman candidate had been marked\u00a0 in the column with an M instead of F. The Robot is programmed to read only the Column of Fs and Ms and therefore found the percentage of women in the Nomination list short of the required per centage. The Robot not programmed to \u00a0read names was unable to detect the human error, therefore it rejected the Nomination list.<\/p>\n

Is that not an absurdity of the Mahinda Deshapriya Robot which is programmed to read only columns and not names ?<\/p>\n

There is a Biblical saying \u00a0which was later taken by legal luminaries in interpreting the law, which was to adopt the spirit of the\u00a0 law and not the letter of it. <\/strong><\/p>\n

However, another factor which the\u00a0 Robot is not programmed to understand\u00a0 is that one makes more mistakes when one has more work to do, than when one has less work to do.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is said that SLPP which had more nomination lists rejected had received 67\u00a0000 requests\u00a0 seeking nomination for the \u00a0Provincial Council Elections. \u00a0If one has a human mind one can understand why there were more errors in the nomination lists of SLPP .\u00a0 SLPP cannot accommodate all those who had asked for nominations and they had to do make extremely difficult choices.<\/p>\n

There had certainly been much pressure, and errors inevitable. If the parties presenting the Nomination Papers had met \u00a0human beings and not Robots to present the Nomination lists \u00a0they could have examined the lists together to see if there were errors, and how serious they were and correct some,\u00a0 and \u00a0reject others \u00a0which were to serious errors to be accepted under any circumstances, \u00a0the situation would certainly have been different. <\/strong><\/p>\n

But this is the fault of having Robots to work with !!!<\/p>\n

Those Political parties which had less number of rejects certainly had less number of requests for nominations to deal with and had been able to keep within the Robot\u2019s programme.<\/p>\n

The conclusion is that the \u00a0election Department should be manned by human beings and not Robots. <\/strong><\/p>\n

We see the absurdity of turning the Elections Department into a Robot, which made meaningless \u00a0the Provincial Council elections which the people and their representatives , won after a fight against a monstrous undemocratic, unpatriotic Yahapalanaya, which had denied \u00a0the people the right to have their representatives elected to the Provincial Council for two years.<\/p>\n

The long expected Provincial Council elections became a sad experience by the Election Department Robot rejecting the nomination list of the Political parties for minor\u00a0 human errors. Mahinda Deshapriya Robot had failed to understand that those candidates on the rejected Nomination lists have to wait, one does not know for how long\u00a0 before there would be an election again for Provincial Councils.<\/p>\n

We expect at least the Judges be human,\u00a0 more than being just legal representatives,\u00a0 making legal terms meaningful\u00a0 and people friendly, than the chaotic\u00a0 Robotic interpretation of the Election law by the Elections Department.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mahinda Deshapriya takes himself too seriously, and becomes a law unto himself.\u00a0 In January 2015 presidential elections Mahinda Deshapriya the Commissioner of Elections had ordered the police to shoot in the head\u201d to kill any one trying to disrupt elections.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.thenews.com.pk\/print\/48395-nine-die-as-ltte-suicide-bomber-attacks-army-base<\/p>\n

But he has forgotten that a Commissioner\u00a0 of Elections is there to see that the Elections are held properly to let the people exercise their vote. The Commissioner of Election \u00a0is there to \u00a0allow people to seek nominations and help the Political Parties to prepare the nomination lists correctly and facilitate their acceptance without\u00a0 being unbending in the application of the Election Laws. <\/strong><\/p>\n

After all the elections are of the people, by the people, and \u00a0for the people.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Charles.S.Perera A Robot is a machine with many parts, which is programmed\u00a0 to carry out\u00a0 complex tasks.\u00a0 A mechanical Robot is\u00a0 programmed. It works only according to its programme. If it were to be asked to rectify any error the Robot cannot do \u00a0it,\u00a0 as it is not programmed to rectify\u00a0 errors. Commissioner of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73123","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=73123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}