Two more days allocated for postal voting next month

The Election Commission has allocated two additional days in the next month for postal voting for the local government polls, additional Elections Commissioner Saman Sri Ratnayake said.

Accordingly, government employees who were unable to cast their postal vote this week will be given another opportunity on 1 and 2 February at the Election Secretariat and at the relevant district election offices.

Postal voting for the 10 February local government elections began on Monday, 22 January, for officials of the police stations, Divisional Secretariats, District Secretariats and election offices. Postal voting for employees at other government institutions was held on 25 and 26 January.

Meanwhile, Deputy Election Commissioner MM Mohamed said marking postal votes of the LG polls was conducted in a free and fair manner.