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Extend postal voting, says JVP
The JVP has requested the Elections Commissioner to extend the date of postal voting so that those who were unable to cast their votes will have the opportunity to vote. This was conveyed in a letter to the Commissioner by JVP General Secretary Tilvin Silva.

It has been revealed that out of 286,624 who had applied for postal voting, half of them had not been able to cast their votes due to varied reasons. Accordingly more than 20,000 Army, Navy, Air Force and Police personnel had not been able to cast their votes.

Sources said that out of 52,585 Army personnel who had applied for postal voting, 16,435 have not even been informed about the postal voting by their superiors.

It is said that this was the first time that such a large number of Army personnel had been denied their voting rights at one time.

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