{"id":2025,"date":"2024-11-13T10:16:54","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T04:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.lankanewsnetwork.com\/?p=2025"},"modified":"2024-11-13T10:16:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T04:46:54","slug":"ballot-boxes-and-election-stationery-to-be-issued-today-ahead-of-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.lankanewsnetwork.com\/?p=2025","title":{"rendered":"Ballot boxes and election stationery to be issued today ahead of General Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Election Commission states that ballot boxes and all stationery related to the general election will be issued throughout the day today (13).<\/p>\n<p>The Commissioner General of Elections Saman Sri Ratnayake said these activities will take place from 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll officials and ballot boxes, ballot papers, and other stationery to be sent to the 13,314 polling stations for tomorrow\u2019s parliamentary election will be issued today across 49 premises on the island. This distribution is being carried out in 25 district secretariats covering the 22 constituencies. Activities will start at 7:00 a.m., and a rehearsal will be conducted for the staff working at all polling stations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police Spokesman DIG Nihal Thalduwa announced that approximately 64,000 police officers were deployed yesterday (12) to ensure security across all constituencies during the general election.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the People\u2019s Action for Free and Fair Elections (PAFFREL) will deploy approximately 6,000 representatives to monitor this year\u2019s election, according to PAFFREL Executive Director Rohana Hettiarachchi.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Department for Registration of Persons has announced that all public services, including its one-day service, will be unavailable on November 14, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the department said that due to the General Election being held on that day, its staff have been assigned to election duties, and therefore, services will not be operational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Election Commission states that ballot boxes and all stationery related to the general election will be issued throughout the day today (13). The Commissioner General of Elections Saman Sri Ratnayake said these activities will take place from 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. \u201cAll officials and ballot boxes, ballot papers, and other stationery to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leadstories","category-local"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ballot boxes and election stationery to be issued today ahead of General Election - LANKA NEWS NETWORK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/english.lankanewsnetwork.com\/?p=2025\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ballot boxes and election stationery to be issued today ahead of General Election - LANKA NEWS NETWORK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Election Commission states that ballot boxes and all stationery related to the general election will be issued throughout the day today (13). 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