Washington
04 October 2007
The voter registration process for next year's national election contains serious flaws, a democracy group has found.
The process has come under fire in recent weeks, as a deadline nears for eligible voters to register and for voters who believe they were removed from lists to get back on them.
Critics have charged the process is skewed in favor of the Cambodian People's Party, with tens of thousands of names of opposition supporters removed from lists and the burden to rectify those lists in the hands of laymen voters.
"Voters turned out less because of voter lists irregularities," Ly Sothearayuth, a senior program officer for the National Democratic Institute, said Thursday.
NDI recently completed a survey of 385 communes, where they found more than 11 percent of eligible voters had not registered.
The survey found that 20 percent of registered voters had not been given a critical identification card, Ly Sothearayuth said, as a guest on "Hello VOA."
The National Election Committee has said the voter lists needed cleaned of illegible voters—such as the deceased—and that voters have until Oct. 20 to ensure their names are posted.
But now the NEC should be focusing on getting as many people voting as possible, Ly Sothearayuth said. The burden should not be on the people, he added.
Around 7 million people will be legible to vote in the national parliamentary elections, set for July next year.
The process has come under fire in recent weeks, as a deadline nears for eligible voters to register and for voters who believe they were removed from lists to get back on them.
Critics have charged the process is skewed in favor of the Cambodian People's Party, with tens of thousands of names of opposition supporters removed from lists and the burden to rectify those lists in the hands of laymen voters.
"Voters turned out less because of voter lists irregularities," Ly Sothearayuth, a senior program officer for the National Democratic Institute, said Thursday.
NDI recently completed a survey of 385 communes, where they found more than 11 percent of eligible voters had not registered.
The survey found that 20 percent of registered voters had not been given a critical identification card, Ly Sothearayuth said, as a guest on "Hello VOA."
The National Election Committee has said the voter lists needed cleaned of illegible voters—such as the deceased—and that voters have until Oct. 20 to ensure their names are posted.
But now the NEC should be focusing on getting as many people voting as possible, Ly Sothearayuth said. The burden should not be on the people, he added.
Around 7 million people will be legible to vote in the national parliamentary elections, set for July next year.
6 comments:
Oh, shut the fuck up. Even if we were to give you a 100,000 votes head start, you'll still haven't got a prayer.
SRP must differentitiate itself from the CPP by declaring assets and fight corruption.
Can the SRP bring our corruption ranking level up to the top 10 least corrupted country?
Hey, no answer? What the fuck do you guy mean by fighting corruption? You bitched to us about Cambodia being ranked 162 in corruption level, and you wont tell us what are you shooting for? What type of crap is that?
Hi 11.27 you must be very ignorant SRP can start with only one thing that is each office has to declare his asset first before commencing job it would help reducing a lot of corruption already. SRP still has a lot more good ideas for the nation. Please let try SRP for a term then you will know how much it is better than CPP.
Well, if the SRP can't estimate the asset at this point, then they are not ready to lead any country.
Furthermore, we would like to see some solid record of accomplishments if you don't mind. We don't want to go with any lip services. Lot of people got good ideas also, not just SRP.
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