More than eleven percent of Cambodia's eligible voters remain unregistered, according to a voter registration audit recently complete by a coalition of election watchdog NGOs, local media said on Friday.
Using a random sample of 682,000 voters throughout the nation, the report found that 88.8 percent of eligible voters were registered and 11.2 percent unregistered, reported Chinese- language newspaper the Commercial News.
The audit report was jointly prepared by the U.S.-based National Democratic Institute, the Neutral and Impartial Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (NICFEC), and the Center for Advanced Study.
The registration of voters is more important than deleting ghost voter names from the voter list, said NICFEC Executive Director Puthea Hang, though he added that it is a high priority for the National Election Committee (NEC) of Cambodia to do the clean-up of the list.
Meanwhile, NEC Secretary-General Tep Nytha told reporters that NEC is updating the voter list according to accurate documents and fact.
NEC had verified that commune councilors were 91 percent accurate in listing voter names, he added.
Cambodia is to hold general election in July 2008 and a new government will be set up then.
Source: Xinhua
Using a random sample of 682,000 voters throughout the nation, the report found that 88.8 percent of eligible voters were registered and 11.2 percent unregistered, reported Chinese- language newspaper the Commercial News.
The audit report was jointly prepared by the U.S.-based National Democratic Institute, the Neutral and Impartial Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (NICFEC), and the Center for Advanced Study.
The registration of voters is more important than deleting ghost voter names from the voter list, said NICFEC Executive Director Puthea Hang, though he added that it is a high priority for the National Election Committee (NEC) of Cambodia to do the clean-up of the list.
Meanwhile, NEC Secretary-General Tep Nytha told reporters that NEC is updating the voter list according to accurate documents and fact.
NEC had verified that commune councilors were 91 percent accurate in listing voter names, he added.
Cambodia is to hold general election in July 2008 and a new government will be set up then.
Source: Xinhua
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