Election complaints were collected at the SRP headquarters (Photo: DR, Cambodge Soir Hebdo)31 July 2008
By A.L.G.
Cambodge Soir Hebdo
Unofficial translation from French by Tola Ek
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The Center for Social Development (CSD) estimates that between 100 to 200 voters per polling station could not vote, each polling station serves between 400 to 700 registered voters.
“Serious irregularities” are affecting the 27 July ballot, CSD said in a communiqué issued on 30 July.
“In some polling stations, CSD observers were not allowed to check the process, even though they have their observer’s identifications issued by the National Election Committee (NEC),” the CSD reported.
The NGO added in its communiqué that: “Furthermore, the election process imposed by the NEC is extremely complicated. Several people did not receive their voter’s information pamphlet distributed by the NEC. Some voters had this information pamphlet or their identification cards, but their names did not appear on the voters’ list. Others could not vote because their birth date was not the same as the one on the list and their documents. Finally, the election rule allows voters to vote with their family book, officials at the polling station did not allow them because their photos were not stamped.”
CSD also deplores the fact that “local authorities, police offices, military police officers, and village chiefs” were present in front and inside the polling stations, thereby creating “an atmosphere of intimidation for the voters.”
“Serious irregularities” are affecting the 27 July ballot, CSD said in a communiqué issued on 30 July.
“In some polling stations, CSD observers were not allowed to check the process, even though they have their observer’s identifications issued by the National Election Committee (NEC),” the CSD reported.
The NGO added in its communiqué that: “Furthermore, the election process imposed by the NEC is extremely complicated. Several people did not receive their voter’s information pamphlet distributed by the NEC. Some voters had this information pamphlet or their identification cards, but their names did not appear on the voters’ list. Others could not vote because their birth date was not the same as the one on the list and their documents. Finally, the election rule allows voters to vote with their family book, officials at the polling station did not allow them because their photos were not stamped.”
CSD also deplores the fact that “local authorities, police offices, military police officers, and village chiefs” were present in front and inside the polling stations, thereby creating “an atmosphere of intimidation for the voters.”
2 comments:
The International Community only concerns about the violence that led up to the election as to the way of how NEC – National Electoral Cheating conducted and organised the election they don't give a damn about it. Born a duck will be a duck.
I call all foreign investors and international community to boycott and divestment in Cambodia until human rights and international law are respected.
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