The Peoples Alliance for Free and Fair Elections (PAFFREL) will voice its concerns with the Commissioner of Elections that the polling Cards of around 300,000 IDPs are not misused, PAFFREL Executive Director Rohana Hettiarachchi said yesterday.

He said "As each and every vote is valuable, we have the responsibility of ensuring that the IDPs could exercise their franchise freely at the forthcoming Presidential Elections."

"Another matter for serious concern, which we hope to raise with the Commissioner of Elections Dayananda Dissanayake, when we meet him next week, would be media reports to the effect that 2.6 million registered voters do not possess National Identity Cards or alternate identity documents that are recognised by the Commissioner. We have our doubts regarding the actual number who do not possess any identity card", He said.

He said that they had invited the Asian Network for Free and Fair Elections(ANFER) based in Thailand to send at least 50 foreign Observers from countries in the Asian Region to monitor the Presidential Election.

During the last Presidential Election in 2005 there were 10,486 polling stations countrywide and this time there would be 10,400.

PAFFREL is making arrangements to deploy at least 10,500 local observers to cover all polling stations islandwide with around 300 mobile teams of local observers, he said.