The National Election Committee hopes to register some 320,000 new voters between October and December, adding to a list of more than 8.3 million. (Photo: AP)Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer
Phnom Penh Thursday, 09 September 2010
“But some legal conditions make their registration complicated, such as [a requirement for] identity cards and a residence book.”The National Election Committee hopes to register some 320,000 new voters between October and December, adding to a list of more than 8.3 million.
The NEC announced its figures on Thursday, following an annual survey of voter registration.
“Cambodians of both genders above the age of 18 who have not registered or have changed their residences have the right to register at the commune office where they are living, NEC President Im Sousdey told reporters Thursday.
However, an opposition lawmaker said the NEC was making a difficult task sound easy.
“The National Election Committee seems to have a willingness to promote non-governmental organizations and opposition parties in attracting people eligible to register,” the Sam Rainsy Party lawmaker, Kuoy Bunroeun, said. “But some legal conditions make their registration complicated, such as [a requirement for] identity cards and a residence book.”
The identification of some 4 million people are set to expire between 2011 and 2012—when commune council elections are scheduled—he said. And around half a million voters have double names on the NEC roster, he said.
Im Sousdey said the Ministry of Interior was considering issuing a subdecree to extend the validity of ID cards, and he denied that 500,000 double names were on the NEC books.
“Commune clerks must write down the ID number of voters on the list and issue a receipt confirming their registration,” he said.
Meanwhile, local leaders like Yon Teng, Bak Dav commune chief in Kandal province's Khach Kanal district, are preparing to canvas for registrations.
“We are preparing all the legal documents for unregistered people who are 18 years old in all the villages,” he said.
Koul Panha, director of the Committee for Free and Fair Elections, said his organization would help the NEC issue campaign information and register new voters, especially through broadcast media.
9 comments:
I urges all the Khmer people please go to vote if your above the age of 18. Voted for change for the future of our country pick the right leader that doesn't working for the foreigner.
Cambodians MUST remove thieves from parliment and governement..
Khmer people,please vote for change .Don't vote for Hun Sen and his pigs.
? vs. CPP ...
CFF, HRP, SRP, ACU, NGO, HRW and NEC.
4:04 AM
You know why the CPP will always win? Because all you can do is begging for votes. Google the word leverage. That's vote magnet.
Urge ម៉ែហ្ហែង
Dear Khmer Youth,
Your bright future and all khmers are in your hands You are the pillar of Khmer. Our ancestors have shed theri blood to defend and protect Cambodia many century and now we almost wipe out from the world map. So go to register to vote and vote conscientiously so khmer can live longer.
even people try to egister as NEC informed thm, but NEC still have trick to make people hardly find the way to cast the vote easily, because the NEC already maintained the viet name at the easiest location for them and push the genuine Khmer people to look for their location for casting vote. this is the trick of ah yuon slave NEC and CPP.
International obeservers cannot find the trick of this dynamic, because they are not allowed to seek and search in depth of this secret.
I urges all the Khmer people please go to vote if your above the age of 18. Voted for change for the future of our country pick the right leader that doesn't working for the foreigner.
3:33 AM
I have noland and resident can I register?
Please don't go to voete and ready for people power to strike out!
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