All Recommendations
Participation Inclusion
Guarantee the voting rights of persons with disabilities
Guarantee the voting rights of persons with disabilities by ensuring independent access to polling stations, transportation for voters with reduced mobility, and by introducing tactile ballot papers. Established assisted voting procedures should be simplified.
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Last Updated: 15 Dec 2022 at 11:14
Participation Inclusion
Submission of the proposal on the Establishment of National Level all-inclusive Electoral Central Committees
The Disability Organizations Joint Front, DOJF, which is an umbrella organization with the representation of 36 disability persons organizations established in Sri Lanka, as an institution which has a keen focus on the election rights of the persons with disabilities, has made various national level interventions with the objective of establishing an inclusive election process.
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Last Updated: 30 May 2025 at 06:36
Political Parties & Candidates
Prevent registration of political parties without genuine political purpose. Registration should ensure 30% women's representation in political parties.
Limit the participation of false candidates ,parties and independent groups, such as those posing as proxy and dummy candidates and parties by imposing higher candidacy bond and higher vote quotas to reimburse those bonds.
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Last Updated: 13 Dec 2023 at 12:46
Media and Information Environment
Repeal the Online Safety Act
Repeal the Online Safety Act
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Last Updated: 19 Sep 2025 at 10:10
Legal Framework
Consider mechanisms to enfranchise Sri Lanka citizens abroad through postal voting or other alternative voting procedures. EC, civil society, and migrant advocates should be consultated to create this enabling law.
Out of country voting and proxy voting are not allowed, resulting in disenfranchisement of approximately two million migrant workers overseas. Absentee voting is restricted to essential government workers (police, military, and civil servants) who are eligible to be registered for advance/absentee voting (known in Sri Lanka as "postal voting").
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Last Updated: 14 Jan 2026 at 16:50
