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Wednesday, February 03, 2010 - 04.45 GMT

Computer expert rejects Opposition's allegations

 
The computer expert who was responsible for the final computer tabulation of the recently concluded presidential election results totally rejected the opposition's claim of votes manipulation.

There is no possibility of altering computerized election results, Dr. Ruwan Weerasinghe, Head of Colombo University Computer Division told the BBC Sandeshaya programme yesterday.

He said that the accuracy of the election results were verified and crosschecked several times by the election officials and party representatives at the counting centers before entering them into the computer.

"The count is supervised and signed off by political party agents," he said.

Dr. Weerasinghe totally rejected the opposition's claim that computer technology was used to rig the election results saying that there is no possibility at all making any alternations to the results after the data were fed to the computer.


 
 
   
   
   
   
   

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