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Half a million more voters
The electoral register for 2002 will be the one used for the forthcoming General Election, which has been fixed for April 2. According to figures provided by the Elections Commissioner's Department a total of 12,899,032 voters are eligible to cast their vote at this year's election. This is an increase of 470,824 voters from the 12,428,208 registered voters at the previous general election held in 2001.

Applications for postal votes will be received by Returning Officers from tomorrow till February 23. The 2002 electoral registers relevant to all electoral districts are now open to the public for examination, during office hours at the District Secretariats, Kachcheries and certain other selected locations.

Though around 165,000 upcountry estate workers gained citizenship they are not eligible to vote in the forthcoming election, the Election's Department said.

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