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Election Observation During a Pandemic: CMEV Activity Report

Lockdown, quarantine, flattening the curve and shutdown are not the terms familiar to many. CMEV also faced

new experiences and challenges in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic situation. This document first provides an

overview of some of the interventions made by CMEV in this period. It also details media coverage of CMEV’s

activities and interventions. Finally, the document provides a snapshot of activity on CMEV’s official website and

Facebook pages, as indicators of CMEV’s online operations during this period.

The pre-election campaign period for the Parliamentary General Election 2020 was active since midnight of March

02, 2020 and CMEV has been recording an increasing number of campaign related complaints despite preferential

numbers for candidates not even being issued. Those complaints were not entirely related to conventional election

violence and violation related incidents as with elections in the past. Many of the complaints received were

connected to the politicisation of relief measures provided by the government in the wake of the pandemic.

One of the significant factors affecting CMEV’s work was attempting to run an election observation mission in a

context that did not allow for access to our head office with significant travel restrictions also been imposed on

our mobility. In addition, we have had to determine manner in which we are supposed to contribute to the election

process while it has been continuously postponed due to its uncertain legal foundation. Despite this, CMEV staff

have continued to carry out their duties as usual while being based at their respective residences during this

restricted context.

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Key Interventions

Below are some of the key interventions made by CMEV:

1. Publishing ‘Considerations for Holding an Election During the COVID-19 Pandemic’, a Briefing Paper

offering election stakeholders and voters an outline of how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected elections

worldwide; and important factors to note in the Sri Lankan electoral context.

2. Issuing a statement calling for postponing the Parliamentary General Election 2020 at the onset of the

pandemic situation on March 17, 2020

3. Acting in coordination with all other domestic election observation organisations to issue joint statement

urging all relevant authorities to resolve their issues regarding a new election date with the mutual

understanding of not creating a constitutional crisis against the backdrop of COVID19

4. Participating in designing health guidelines for the election on the Election Commission’s invitation, and

in collaboration with regional election observer network ANFREL and national election observer PAFFREL

5. Preparing a guideline on ‘Safety measures in elections, Election Dispute Resolution Systems and New

Approaches in the Midst of Pandemic Situations’ to submit to the Election Commission

6. Assisting in coordinating the essential supplies delivery and relief provision work of the NGO consortium

set up in response to COVID-19 with the participation of civil society organisations

7. Making complaints to the Election Commission and the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on pandemic

relief programme related election law violations, including the misuse of voter lists and abuse of powers

by a number of public authorities and officials regarding the LKR 5,000 relief measure

8. Conducting a series of webinars to share experiences and learnings with election stakeholders in Myanmar

targeting the general election of Myanmar to be held in November 2020, in partnership with Democracy

Reporting International, ANFREL and other election stakeholders in Myanmar

9. Assisting ANFREL with developing a Code of Conduct for all domestic election observation organisations

for election observation operations during the pandemic situation

Interventions referred to in points #1, #3 and #7 above

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Below are some of the regular interventions made by CMEV:

10. Publicising nominations information for the Parliamentary General Election 2020, including electorate and

national list level nominations from political parties and independent groups and statistics

11. Following through with complaints to the Election Commission and other authorities on regular election

law violations, including public officials engaging in election campaigning

12. Regular updates on CMEV social media channels about election-related news and developments

Interventions referred to in point #10 above

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Media Coverage

Date Source Headline Link

13/01/2020 Resa Newspaper රැස දෙවසරකින් ඉනික්බිතිව… Link

16/01/2020 Ceylon Today Wijeyadasa's 22nd Amendment opportunistic - Gajanayake Link

20/01/2020 TNLRN News Radio භික්බුන්ට දේශපාලනදෙන් ද ාර ජාතික වගකීමක්බ Link

21/01/2020 TNLRN News Radio Reveal stance on handing nominations to monks Link

21/01/2020 Colombo Telegraph The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions: Wijeyadasa’s ‘21st &

22nd Amendments’ Link

21/01/2020 Lankadeepa නිලධාරි සනුහදේට නොට අඳුදකාළ ජන ාවාදී ආකල්ප Link

24/01/2020 TNLRN News Radio CMEV commends move to amend election laws Link

24/01/2020 TNLRN News Radio ඡන්ෙෙ භාවි කිරීදේ නව ක්බ්රමදේෙ හඳුන්වාදීම ඇගයීමට ලක්බදවයි Link

26/01/2020 Sunday Observer UNP National List vacancy: Appointment of Saman Rathnapriya comes

under fire Link

10/02/2020 TNLRN News Radio සමාජදේ දියුණුවට ආගමික නාෙකෙන්දේ මැදිහත්වීම මදි Link

10/02/2020 TNLRN News Radio Clergy urged to play role to change the political culture Link

22/02/2020 Ceylon Today Social media during national polls: FB urged to consider candidate's

code of conduct and media guidelines Link

24/02/2020 TNLRN News Radio මැතිසබෙට ආ ජනප්රිෙ චරි කල දසේවෙ ගැන CMEV වාේ ාවක්බ හෙයි Link

24/02/2020 Lanka Leads News අලුතින් සිෙෙක්බ පාේිදේන්ුවට පැෆරල් සංවිධානෙ හා මාේු 12 ේ්ොපාරෙ

හමුදවයි…! Link

24/02/2020 Lanka News Web පාේිදේන්ු ආ ජනප්රිෙ චරි වල පැටිකිරිෙ දහාෙන්න ෙයි ! Link

24/02/2020 UTV News පාේිදේන්ුවට පිවිසි ජනප්රිෙ චරි කල දසේවෙ ගැන වාේ ාවක්බ සකසයි Link

26/02/2020 Sitha FM ATHTHADA - MANJULA GAJANAYAKA 2020 02 27 Link

02/03/2020 Ada Derana LIVE මැතිවරණ කාලදේදී අදපක්බෂකො සහ ජන ාවදේ හැසිරීම Link

03/03/2020 NewsFirst Sri Lanka අලුත්ව ෙවස | Dawasa, 03/03/2020 Link

03/03/2020 Mawbima සැබෑ ජන ා දසේවකෙන් ද ෝරා පත්වකරගමු Link

03/03/2020 CMEV සැබෑ ජන ා දසේවකෙන් ද ෝරාගමු! Link

14/03/2020 TNLRN News Radio EC must decide on the General Election-CMEV Link

14/03/2020 Colombo Times ඡන්ෙෙ කල්ොනවානේ කළ යුු දේ ගැන මැතිවරණ නිරිෂකයින්දගන් පැහැදිළි

කිරීමක්බ. Link

14/03/2020 Deshaya ඡන්දෙට පිටදපාට ගසන නිරීක්බෂණ සංවිධාන Link

16/03/2020 TNLRN News Radio Monitors 'concerned' over talks of Poll delay Link

16/03/2020 TNLRN News Radio මැතිවරණ දිනෙ ගැන තීරණෙක්බ ගන්න කින් පක්බෂ සමග සාකච්ඡා කරන්න ... Link

17/03/2020 The Morning Elections monitoring body calls for postponement of General

Elections Link

17/03/2020 The Sunday Times CMEV calls for postponement of General Elections Link

18/03/2020 Economy Next CMEV says free and fair elections unlikely under current conditions Link

18/03/2020 News First CMEV urges to postpone general election Link

18/03/2020 The World News CMEV urges to postpone general election Link

19/03/2020 Ceylon Today Free ride on the COVID-19: LG level campaigning for GE ongoing -

CMEV Link

19/03/2020 The Island Some politicians campaigning disregarding assurances not to do so Link

20/03/2020 Daily News EC stands to hold elections - Elections Commissioner General Link

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20/03/2020 Ravaya අදපක්බෂකෙන්ට එදරහි අපරාධ වාේ ා ප්රසිේධ කළ යුුයි Link

25/03/2020 Lanka Views දකාදරෝනා වසංග අවසේථාදවන් සමහර ඡන්ෙ අදපක්බෂකදෙෝ ප්රදෙෝජනෙ

ගන්නවා – මංජුල ගජනාෙක Link

01/04/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio පාේිදේන්ුව කැඳවුවා කිො සිදුවන දවනසක්බ නෑ - CMEV Link

02/04/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio Deployment of graduates for curfew duty condemned Link

03/04/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio CMEV commends Election Commission Link

03/04/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio මැ.දකාමිසම ජනපතිට ෙැවූ ිපිෙට CMEV ප්රසාෙෙ Link

04/04/2020 Sri Lanka Mirror Monitoring bodies write to EC on distribution of goods by candidates Link

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07/04/2020 NewsHub Watchdog complains to Election Commission on distribution of spice

as relief Link

08/04/2020 Daily Mirror Lanka Sathosa says spices with lotus flower packing will not be taken

off shelves Link

08/04/2020 ColomboXNews සද ාස දබෙන කුළුබඩු පැකට්වල දපාදහාට්ුව ගහලා – මැතිවරණ දකාමිසමට

පැමිණිල්ලක්බ. Link

08/04/2020 TrueNews සද ාස දබෙන කුළුබඩු පැකට්වල දපාදහාට්ුව ගහලා – මැතිවරණ දකාමිසමට

පැමිණිල්ලක්බ. Link

08/04/2020 Lanka Team ජරපත්ව දේශපාලනදේ කණදකාක්බ සුෙ - විමල් විරවංශ Link

08/04/2020 FactCrescendo ඇඳිරි නීති සමදේ කුළු බඩු දබො දීදේදී දපාදහාට්ුදේ ලාංඡනෙ සහි ඇසුරුමක්බ

දොොගත්වදත්වෙ? Link

10/04/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio විධාෙකෙ සහ මැතිවරණ දකාමිසම අ ර ගැුේ එපා – CMEV Link

10/04/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio Executive must work cooperatively Link

10/04/2020 Info Sri Lanka News විධාෙකෙ සහ මැතිවරණ දකාමිසම අ ර ගැුේ එපා – CMEV Link

10/04/2020 NewsHub විධාෙකෙ සහ මැතිවරණ දකාමිසම අ ර ගැුේ එපා – CMEV Link

10/04/2020 Ravaya සහනාධාර දලාක්බඩවුන් දනාදකාට මැතිවරණ පැවැත්වීම ප්රජා න්ත්ව්රවාෙෙට අහි කරෙ

Link

13/04/2020 TV One TV One News (Eleciton Observers Join Statement) Link

13/04/2020 TNLRN News Radio ඡන්ෙ තිෙන්න කින් ජන ජීවි ෙ ෙථාවත්ව විෙ යුුයි – නිරීක්බෂණ සංවිධාන Link

13/04/2020 Lanka Web ේ්ෙවසේථාමෙ අේුෙෙක්බ කැඳවා දනාගනිමු Link

13/04/2020 Samabima නිසි කලට මැතිවරණ පැවැත්වීදමන් “පමණක්බ” ප්රජා න්ත්ව්රවාෙෙ රැදකයිෙ? Link

13/04/2020 Ada මැතිවරණෙ ගැන නිරීක්බෂණ සංවිධානෙ වින් ඒකාබේධ ප්රකාශෙක්බ Link

13/04/2020 Shakthi TV Shakthi TV News (Eleciton Observers Join Statement) Link

13/04/2020 Sirasa TV News First Sirasa News First Sinhala (Eleciton Observers Join Statement) Link

13/04/2020 Anidda දේ දමාදහාදත්ව ඡන්ෙෙක්බ එපා සිෙලූ මැතිවරණ නිරීක්බෂකදෙෝ කිෙති Link

14/04/2020 Lanka News Web දගෝලීෙ ේ්ෙසනෙක්බ හමුදේ ේ්ෙවසේථාමෙ අේුෙෙක්බ ඇති දනාීමට නේ Link

14/04/2020 Lanka News Web To prevent the Constitutional Crisis amid a Pandemic.. Link

15/04/2020 The Island NGOs pressure govt. to resolve polls issue urgently Link

15/04/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio දකාදරෝනා මැෙ ඡන්ෙ තිො හානිෙක්බ වුදනාත්ව වගකීම දේශපාලඥයින් භාරග යුුයි

Link

18/04/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio CMEV condemns politicization of relief aid Link

19/04/2020 Lankadeepa දකාදරෝනා දලාවපුරා මැතිවරණ 30 ක්බ කල් ෙමයි Link

22/04/2020 Ceylon Today CMEV urges revision of election campaigning rules Link

22/04/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio Not an apt environment for an election-CMEV Link

22/04/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio දිනෙක්බ නිෙම වුනත්ව ඡන්ෙෙකට සුදුසු වටපිටාවක්බ රදට් නෑ – CMEV Link

23/04/2020 Ceylon Today Polls monitor tells EC/authorities: Create level playing field for

campaigning candidates Link

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24/04/2020 Wediwistara.com මැතිවරණ පවත්වවා සැනදසමුෙ - වැනදසමුෙ? - පාේිදේන්ු මැතිවරණෙ කැඳීදේ සමසේ ක ාව

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28/04/2020 Ceylon Today Polls monitors urge EC: Assess situ with health authorities Link

29/04/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio Advance Voting System best suited for elections Link

29/04/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio Advanced Voting System ලංකාවටත්ව ? Link

02/05/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio නිරීක්බෂණ සංවිධාන මැ.දකා හමුදවන්න සැරදසයි Link

02/05/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio Monitoring bodies to hold talks with NEC Link

02/05/2020 V FM News මැතිවරණ දකාමිසම සහ පක්බෂ නිදෙෝජි ෙන් අ ර අෙ විදශේෂ සාකච්ඡාවක්බ Link

03/05/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio මහ ඡන්ෙෙ ජූනි 20 බැරිනේ දින 14 කට පසු දවනත්ව දිනෙක? Link

03/05/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio EC can amend election date if needed -CMEV Link

05/05/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio ජනපතිවරණ නීති කැඩීේ ගැන මැතිවරණ දකාමිසම නිහඩයි – CMEV Link

05/05/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio EC yet to respond to 2019 election complaints Link

08/05/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio මැතිවරණ නිරීක්බෂණ කටයුු කිරීදේ අපහසු ාවෙක්බ Link

08/05/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio Election unlikely on 20th June – CMEV Link

12/05/2020 Ceylon Today CMEV to make queries on progress Link

14/05/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio ඡන්ෙ ොෙකෙන්දේ දසෞඛ්ොරක්බෂාව ගැන දකාමිසම සහ නිරීක්බෂකෙන් අ ර සාකච්ඡා

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14/05/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio CMEV to help ensure safe environment for voters Link

15/05/2020 Sirasa TV News First 15.05.2020 Sirasa News(Sinhala) Link

15/05/2020 Sirasa TV News First 15.05.2020 Sirasa News(English) Link

15/05/2020 News First Auditor General Launches Investigation into Rs. 5,000 allowance Link

16/05/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio මහ මැතිවරණ දසෞඛ්ෙ මාේදගෝපදේශ ගැන දකාමිසම හා නිරීක්බෂණ සංවිධාන පුළුල් සාකච්ඡාවක

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16/05/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio NEC & election monitors discuss safe election conduct Link

18/05/2020 The Island CMEV: LG heads on leave to contest general election still holding their

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19/05/2020 Anidda දල්කේ පත්වකිරීේ නීති විදරෝධීයි Link

20/05/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio අඩු විෙෙේ ප්රචාරණ උපක්බ්රම දකදරහි අදපක්බෂකෙන් අවධානෙ දොමු කළ

යුුයි – CMEV Link

20/05/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio Consider low budget campaign methods-CMEV Link

21/05/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio දකාදරෝනා “0” දවනකන් හිටිදොත්ව ඡන්ෙෙ තිෙන්න දවන්දන් වසරක්බ – දෙකක්බ ගිොට පසේදසේ

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21/05/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio Manage election matters based on health advice Link

23/05/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio 5000 ගැන ඇමති බන්දුල කළ ප්රකාශෙ හරසුන් එකක්බ Link

23/05/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio Bandula’s statement on Rs.5,000 meaningless Link

23/05/2020 Aljazeera Sri Lanka stares at constitutional crisis as polls delayed Link

23/05/2020 East Auto News Sri Lanka stares at constitutional crisis as polls delayed Link

23/05/2020 Post of Asia Sri Lanka stares at constitutional crisis as polls delayed Link

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