Presidential Election: More than 80% of postal votes cast?
September 6, 2024 07:40 pm
Deputy Postmaster General Rajitha Ranasinghe stated that the turnout for postal voting in the 2024 Presidential Election was high over the past two days.
Speaking at a press conference held today (06), he said that more than 80% have cast their postal votes during the last two days.
“According to reports, more than 80% of the (postal) votes have been used, and the registered reserved packs have been delivered to the post offices in the respective areas. We compare this with the number of postal packs received by post offices. Therefore, it is observed that a large number of votes were used on the first day (of postal voting) and today,” he said.
A total of 712,319 voters were eligible to use postal voting in relation to the 2024 presidential election.
Accordingly, the third consecutive day of postal voting for the Presidential Election commenced today (06).
The Election Commission announced that postal voting is available to staff working in District Secretariat Offices, Election Commission Offices, Senior DIG and DIG Offices, SP and ASP Offices, Police Stations, Special Task Force (STF) Camps, Special Police Units, and VIP Security Divisions.
The officers of the three armed forces and the staff of all other government institutions could mark their votes yesterday and today, and the police officers who were unable to vote yesterday have been allowed to vote today.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner General of Elections, Saman Sri Ratnayake stated that the postal voters who could not vote within these three days will be allowed to vote at their respective District Secretariat on September 11 or 12.
