Preparations for polls underway

Following weeks of campaigning the final few hours before the country's decisive Presidential elections gets underway, these scenes were captured by our photographers. [caption id="attachment_67163" align="alignnone" width="300"] Preparations in Colombo for Presidential polls 2015[/caption] [caption id="attachment_67155" align="alignnone" width="333"] Ballot boxes being carried to polling stations in Colombo[/caption] [caption id="attachment_67156" align="alignnone" width="500"] Ballot boxes being unloaded near Royal College in Colombo[/caption] [caption id="attachment_67154" align="alignnone" width="500"] Ballot boxes being carried into DS Senanayake College[/caption] [caption id="attachment_67150" align="alignnone" width="500"] Captured here are scenes from Matale election officials seen walking towards polling stations[/caption] [caption id="attachment_67151" align="alignnone" width="500"] Ballot boxes being taken to polling stations in Matale[/caption] [caption id="attachment_67152" align="alignnone" width="500"] Scenes in Nuwara Eliya[/caption] [caption id="attachment_67153" align="alignnone" width="500"] Scenes in Nuwara Eliya[/caption]