As Sri Lanka prepares for the Presidential Elections, the election commission has issued a notice regarding postal ballots. The island election body announced that the applications to cast postal votes must be handed over to District Returning Officers on or before the 5th of August.

The commission announced that the application forms to be completed for availing the postal voting facility can be obtained free of charge from the places where the voters’ lists are displayed, from the district election offices and also from the website of the Election Commission. To facilitate the voters, the Election regulatory body further mentioned that the 2024 voters’ list will be displayed at the relevant government offices such as district and divisional secretariats as well as Grama Niladhari offices for the ease of the postal voters.

The nominations for the Presidential Elections in Sri Lanka will be accepted on the 15th of August and the polls will be held on the 21st of September through a Preferential voting system. Incumbent President Ranil Wickremasinghe has announced his candidacy while he would face challenges from opposition leader Sajith Premadasa and Marxist-leaning JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake.