13th September 2013: The Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV) officially commenced the deployment of field monitors in the five districts of the Northern Province on 1st September 2013. Prior to this, the CMEV secretariat in Colombo monitored incidents of election violence through media reports and volunteers on the ground and from 2nd to 4th September 2013, CMEV conducted a ...
31 July 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV) has commenced proceedings for monitoring the upcoming Uva Provincial Council Elections 2014. Cooperation and assistance rendered by election officials, police, political parties, candidates, media and the public in the past has been invaluable to the exercise and we look forward to similar support in this election as ...
Summary of incidents recorded by CMEV from 13th of July to 27th of July 3.30pm. Major incidents: 32 Minor incidents: 140 Firearms Involved: 2 Download the full report here.Filed under: Press Reports, Situation Updates Tagged: General Election 2015
Download a PDF of this letter here. Download as a JPG here. ### Mr. Mahinda Deshapriya, Commissioner of Elections, Election Secretariats, Sarana Road, Rajagiriya, 27th December 2014 Dear Sir, I am writing to you with regard to the current floods and the impact it will have on the exercise of the franchise, especially in the North Central and Eastern provinces. ...
Mr Mahinda Deshapriya, Commissioner of Election, Election Secretariat Sarana Road, Rajagiriya. 27th December 2014 Dear Sir, CMEV was informed that the Independent Television Network (ITN) is conducting a programme named ‘Juriye Katha’, a election propaganda programme in favour of President Mahinda Rajapaksha and held at Lake Front Hotel in Kanthalai, a hotel which is maintained by Navy Officers. People in ...
17th March 2011, 1000Hrs: Polls opened at 7.00 am today in 234 Local Authorities. The Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV) has received a number of reports of violence and violations relating to electoral law, including individual incidents of voters being chased away from a polling booth in Dambulla MC and an attack in Beruwela UC on the house of ...
On 20th September 2013 / 08.10h/ Northern Province/ Mannar District/ Mannar Electorate/ Pesalai UPFA party office As reported by CMEV monitor in the area, UPFA Mannar District candidate No 6, Mr. Robert Pieris, organized dry rations to be distributed on the night of 20th September 2013. On 20th September 2013 from 6.00 – 8.00 pm : Northern Province: Jaffna ...
Summary of incidents recorded by CMEV from 13th of July to 16th of August 3.30pm. Major incidents: 146 Minor incidents: 710 Firearms involved: 12 Download the full report here.Filed under: Press Reports, Situation Updates Tagged: General Election 2015
Download as PDF here. ### 24th December 2014 Colombo, Sri Lanka: Second day of the postal voting continued today with a few incidents reported. At present 61 incidents have been reported with 27 Major Incidents and 34 Minor Incidents. Major Incidents include assault, threat and intimidation, misuse of state resources, incidents related to election officers and the intimidating presence of party ...
Download this as a PDF here. On 28th December 2014 at11.30 pm: Colombo, Sri Lanka CMEV has recorded a cumulative total of 180 Incidents of election related violence since the issue of the Gazette Notification on 20th November 2014 announcing the Presidential Election. Of these, 108 are classified as Major and 72 as Minor incidents. The highest number incidents have been ...
Download this press release in Sinhala here or as a PDF in English here. ### 14 January 2015 At present CMEV has recorded a total of 45 incidents with 27 major incidents and 18 minor incidents in the post poll period. The rise in such incidents is worrying and CMEV urges the President and the law enforcement officers to take ...
2 September 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV) has commenced monitoring the forthcoming Northern Provincial Council Elections 2013. Cooperation and assistance rendered by election officials, police, political parties, candidates, media and public in the past has been invaluable to the exercise and we look forward to similar cooperation in this election as well. The CMEV ...
News media reported that the United National Party HQ ‘Sirikotha’ had come under attack following a clash between UNP supporters and members of the Federation of National Organizations who were protesting there. CMEV was sent the following images of the attack. Filed under: Photos, Situation Updates
CMEV received reports of an incident where students sitting for their O/L examination, conducted at St. Mary’s College and Ananda National College at Chilaw, were disturbed by illegal procession violating Section 69 of the Presidential Election Act in which expressly restrict procession at any time during the period commencing on the day of nomination and ending one week after the ...
Download this communique as a PDF here. ### 01st August 2015 Colombo, Sri Lanka The Center for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV) officially commenced monitoring of the incidence of election violence and malpractice in the 2015 General Election. Since the start of the nominations period on the 6th of July, CMEV has deployed around 200 field monitors including 22 district coordinators. ...
23rd December 2014 Colombo, Sri Lanka – Postal voting for the Presidential Election scheduled for 8th January 2015 commenced this morning at 7.30 a.m. A total of 541,831 voters are eligible to cast postal votes on the 23rd, 24th, 26th and 30th of December 2014. According to media reports of the 626,953 applications received for postal voters, nearly 85,000 (14%) ...
Download the final report on election related violence and malpractices during the Presidential Election 2010 in English here and in Sinhala here. You can also read them online below. View this document on Scribd View this document on Scribd Filed under: Final Report, Press Report
