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    EC requests voters returning from overseas to bring passports to casting ballots

    October 31, 2019

    Electors returning from abroad have been advised to produce their Passports in addition to their National Identity Cards (NIC) when they come to cast their vote, a statement from the Election Commission said.Chairman Elections Commission, Mahinda Deshapriya said in a statement that such instructions were being issued so as to prevent voter rigging."Any such elector who fails to produce the passport even though he/she produces any other valid identity document will have to make a declaration on the specimen as required by the Presidential Elections Act," the statement said.Further, the statement added that a ballot will not be issued to the elector who declines to make such a declaration. In addition, action will be taken to handover any such elector whose identity is suspicious to the Police treating him/her as attempting to commit vote-rigging.

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