Vox pop: Voting day
As polls opened Saturday morning for the long-delayed local council elections, the Maldives Independent spoke to voters in the capital about their voting experience.
06 May 2017, 9:00 AM
As polls opened Saturday morning for the long-delayed local council elections, the Maldives Independent spoke to voters in the capital about their voting experience. Most agreed to talk on the condition of anonymity.
Anonymous woman, 32, business person
My candidate was an [opposition Maldivian Democratic Party] candidate, but last week he joined [the ruling Progressive Party of Maldives]. A lot of members of my family voted for him because they thought he was MDP.
The MDP has said they’ve notified the elections commission that he is not an MDP candidate, but elections commission has not taken any action and on the voting paper it still says he is an MDP candidate. So I’ve put a void vote. I believe there should be an invalid option on the voting paper.
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