{"id":66326,"date":"2019-11-16T03:31:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T08:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=66326"},"modified":"2019-11-16T03:31:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T08:31:18","slug":"25-of-voters-cast-theor-ballots-in-first-three-hours-of-voting-from-7-am-to-10-am-in-all-districts-of-sri-lanka-69-election-law-violations-reported-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=66326","title":{"rendered":"25% of Voters Cast Theor Ballots in First Three Hours of Voting From 7 AM to 10 AM in All Districts of Sri Lanka; 69 Election Law Violations reported So Far."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Within three hours of the opening of polling booths in the Sri Lankan Presidential election on Saturday, 25% of the voters had cast their ballots, election officers said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Polling began at 7 am and by 10 am local time, a quarter of the electorate had votes, they added.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to officials on ground, most districts in the island had recorded at least a 20 to 25 percent polling.<\/p>\n<p>The Center for Monitoring Election Violence said that till 10 am, there were a total 69 incidents of election violations reported across the country. A majority of the violations were illegal campaigning and voter intimidation.<\/p>\n<p>The Elections Commission said voting will end at 5 pm and urged political parties to ensure a free and fair poll.<\/p>\n<p>35 candidates are running for the Presidency and the winner is expected to be announced by Monday.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:NewsIn.Asia<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton66326\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D66326&amp;text=25%25%20of%20Voters%20Cast%20Theor%20Ballots%20in%20First%20Three%20Hours%20of%20Voting%20From%207%20AM%20to%2010%20AM%20in%20All%20Districts%20of%20Sri...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within three hours of the opening of polling booths in the Sri Lankan Presidential election on Saturday, 25% of the voters had cast their ballots, election officers said. Polling began at 7 am and by 10 am local time, a quarter of the electorate had votes, they added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66327,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66326\/revisions\/66327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}