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Fiji Foist Party: DHL courier forces Indo-Fijian couple to vote for Fiji First Party candidate; they wanted to vote for  Fiji Labour Party candidate 

4/9/2014

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Jai Ram and Satya Wati, both 80, are living in fear after they claimed they were forced to vote for a candidate.

AN elderly couple was allegedly misled yesterday by a courier company employee into voting for someone whom they did not want to vote for.

It was the first incident of alleged irregularities reported as pre-polling began in the country yesterday in the countdown to September 17.

Jai Ram and his wife Satya Wati, both 80 years old of Horton St in Suva, said their daughter-in-law had applied for postal ballot on their behalf.

“A Fijian of Indian descent employee of the courier company came home this morning (yesterday) with the postal ballot papers and opened the envelopes,” said Ms Wati.

“He asked me who I will vote for. I told him that I’ll vote for the person who can bring peace to the country.

“He said only one person can bring peace and he gave me that candidate’s name.

“That man then ticked that candidate’s number and told me it was OK.

“He then took the ballot paper away. I didn’t want to vote for that person.

“I had wanted to discuss with my family members in the evening and then vote for the person that I was thinking of voting for,” she said.

Mr Ram said the courier company employee showed him a candidate’s number and told him to tick on it, saying he was the best candidate.

“I circled the number and I realised later that it was not the person I had wanted to vote for. I wanted to vote for the Fiji Labour Party.

“The man should have left the ballot papers behind but he took them.

“He insisted that he had to take them away,” said Mr Ram.

Chief Operations Officer, Assistant Commissioner of Police Rusiate Tudravu confirmed receiving a report on the matter.

“We will have to get the other side of the story too from the courier company employee and an investigation will confirm what happened,” he said.

ACP Tudravu said the matter would be referred by the police to Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption for investigations, saying it was the first such case reported yesterday.

Supervisor of Elections Mohammed Saneem said his office was aware of the matter and FICAC was looking into it now. Source: Fiji Times, 4 September 2014


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PRESS RELEASE

Shortage of Envelopes at Pre- Poll Venues

SODLELPA is seriously concerned with the discrepancies in the pre-polls. Several incidences have been reported to the Party headquarters.


We have been informed by some of polling our agents that a number of pre-poll venues ran out of the relevant envelopes or ballot papers as follow-

 Polling Station                   Polling Station No.


1.Yasawa Community Hall             422101


  Four(4) voters did not vote at the above station because they had run out of ballot paper. This is totally unacceptable as this is depriving the voters their right to cast their vote.

2.Taci Community Hall                216501

They ran out of envelopes in the course of polling and polling was suspended whilst election officials had to try and get more envelopes.

3.Malolo district School             528801

Polling suspended as they had run out of envelopes. What will happen to those still to vote if the envelopes do not arrive?

These are the complaints we have received so far and the Party hopes that urgent action is taken by the Supervisor of Elections to remedy these serious shortcomings by his office.

People have waited eight long years to cast their vote only to stumble at the final hurdle because of the inefficiency and inexperience of the elections office.

We have just been informed now that because of the shortage of envelopes at the Malolo District School the voters have been advised that the election team will go back on Wednesday next week to complete polling.  SODELPA wants assurance that there will be no repetition of these problems and if there the Supervisor of Elections must ensure that those affected are still able to cast their votes.


Pio Tabaiwalu
General  Secretary



6 Comments
farcical election link
4/9/2014 04:47:56 am

so shit has already started to happen. but this is only the trailer. the main show the rigging proper is still to come. it will come. that is the game plan of the thugs in power who are organising the elections. and then you have a sold out election commissioner like larry thomas claiming the election will be free and fair. free and fair your arse.

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henchmen link
4/9/2014 05:02:00 am

In their 8 years of dictatorial rule Bainimarama and Khaiyum have planted their henchmen, their thugs and enforcers everywhere. Fiji is no longer a free country. how can you have a free and fair election in a country where fear still rules?

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dredd
4/9/2014 06:05:22 am

All these anomalies are starting to surface due to the inexperience of the people in the election system. And as I feared the regime is about to roll out plan B as indications are that there is not enough support to carry the regime through. It could be rigging if they can hoodwink the international and party observers. Or else some sort of disruption might be staged to stall or cancel the elections and they remain in power for whatever period of time they choose. As it is all the processes are manipulated even the people chosen to manage the election. But still their plan for clean sweep is becoming impossible. The regime has to be impressed in no uncertain terms that if they lose then they will have to step down and let the winner take over. They have to be reminded that the government is not their personal belonging.

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Rogue Electoral Officers / Observor Mission
4/9/2014 01:57:46 pm

Can the names of all electoral officers be printed so it can be seen if any or many of those are not from the 40,000 odd signatories and members of FijiFirst Party?

This is a fair call.

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thug rule link
4/9/2014 06:26:30 pm

Fiji is STILL under thug rule. So the thugs in power will select their men and women to rob the election and stay in power .
Nothing else will do for them. The election is not about the will of the people to choose who should govern them. It is a farce put on for the international community. Just watch and see.

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Jester2014
5/9/2014 06:13:40 am

DHL is a multi-national operator with a solid credibility – being professional and reliable. DHL is usually the courier company of choice for the Diplomatic Corps. With its head office in Berlin, DHL boosts being one the biggest document logistical courier company in the world –employing in excess to 250,000 employees.

The DHL would not RISK its internationally recognized and respected branding by employing an extortionist (and that too - a VOTE extortionist) for an EVIL Dictator in Fiji.

The T4F cartoon speaks volumes in this regard – just like the ‘VODAFONE’ sponsored Aiyaz (in T4F Cartoons) always hiding his willy-nilly.

But more to the point -the RIGGING- has started.

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