Picture of each parliamentary candidate to be added to ballot papers

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SURINAME – Pictures of each parliamentary candidate will be added to the  ballot papers that will be used during the general elections of May 2015. During the previous elections only the pictures of the persons heading the list of candidates were on the lists. The chairman of the Elections 2015 Policy Commission, Lothar Boksteen, told  Times of Suriname  that this decision is aimed at reducing the number of invalid votes.  Boksteen pointed out that this measure is also aimed at ‘helping’ those who cannot read properly or who  are illiterate…[+]