Voting has begun on Saturday to elect members of three provincial councils in Sri Lanka. Over four million people are eligible to vote. Voting began at 7 a.m. and will continue till 4 p.m.
A total of 4,363,252 registered voters from the three provinces are eligible to cast their votes. They include 1,889,557 from the Central Province, 719,477 from the Northern Province, and 1,754,218 from the North Western Province.
There will be 476 counting centers in the three provinces. The election department will begin counting at 6 p.m., and the first postal voting result will be announced at 10 p.m.
All arrangements have been made by the election secretariat for free and fair elections in the Northern, North Western and Central provinces.
Security has been provided for voters to cast their ballots.
The election secretariat has taken steps to introduce new transparent ballot boxes instead of the traditional wooden boxes in select polling centers.
The ballot boxes have been imported from India and are being used as a pilot project.
(with inputs from IANS)
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