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| Cambodian Buddhist monk, right, casts his ballot in local elections at Wat Than pagoda's polling station in Phnom Penh, Sunday, June 3, 2012. Photo: AP |
Wednesday, 06 June 2012
Sok Khemara, VOA Khmer | Washington, DC
“The low turnout is very concerning.”
Only about half of eligible voters went to the polls on Sunday, election monitors say, thanks to a complicated electoral system, confused registries and irregularities at polling sites.
“It’s almost hard to recognize the result,” said Sam Kunteamy, a monitor for the Neutral and Impartial Committee for Free and Fair Elections, who said about 51 percent of eligible voters cast ballots. “The low turnout is very concerning.”
The ruling Cambodian People’s Party swept the election, winning all but around 40 communes of the country’s 1,633.
Kong Ravine, a monitor for the Committee for Free and Fair Elections, said low turnout was due in part to migratory workers, who remained abroad. The groups 6,000 monitors found numerous irregularities and complexities at polling stations that hampered voting, she said.
For example, some voters’ names were “lost,” or villagers village chiefs stood too close to polling sites, intimidating voters, or villagers remained confused over ID cards and voter information cards, she said.
Comfrel observers were banned from taking pictures at some sites, she told “Hello VOA.”
“There should be reform before the next election,” she said. The National Election Committee must correct the voter registry and ensure that people register sooner for next year’s parliamentary election, she said.
Sam Kunteamy said Nicfec’s 3,000 monitors had found irregularities as well, and had found NEC officials that did not understand voting regulations.
4 comments:
Before vote election the NEC has said there were about 9 millions people would go to cast their vote and NEC would print the cast ballot 10.5 millions. About 1.5 million votes over print were criticized by Ngo that it was too much reserved ballot. Now half of the population went to cast their votes. So there are more than half, about 6 millions ballot will be left, where are they now???
DUMB Lazy Khmer didn't want to vote for a bag of rice but they prefer to stay homeless and live like animals and dogs.
DUMB Khmer have noone else to blame but themselves. Some DUMB Khmer will believe anything CPP says. Keep dreaming DUMB Khmer
The voting committee must be fired.
STUPID BRUTE, SHIT HEAD
just because the smart ass like you 'VE been busy fighting one another
and so incompetence , could not persuade or attract even so called dumb
People to vote. They lost interest in voting and let you continue barking
at each other . SO PUT SHIT IN YOUR MOUTH AND SHUT UP ON
YOUR WAY TO SHIT HOLE !
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