Report on the Voter Registry Audit (VRA) in Cambodia 2013

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Report on the Voter Registry Audit (VRA) in Cambodia 2013

National Democratic Institute

The VRA provided a number of salient findings about the quality of the current voter registry, including:

• 82.9% of eligible citizens are registered voters. This represents a decline from the 2008 VRA, which showedan 87.9% registration rate. It represents a discrepancy with the National Election Committee’s(NEC) statistic that placed the number of registered voters is at 101.7% of the eligible population. (People-to-list test.)

• 10.8% of eligible citizens who thought they were registered were not found on the voter registry. Further more, 7.8% of eligible citizens were not on the voter registry even though they said they voted in the 2008 and/or 2012 elections. (People-to-list test.)

•  80.7% of names on the registry are valid and up-to-date, with 63.6% of names belonging to eligible voters living in that community and 17.1% of names belonging to eligible voters who lived temporarily in another location. The remaining 18.3% of names on the list were in valid, with 0.5% confirmed deceased, 7.4% permanently relocated, and 10.4% unknown to people in that community. (List-to-people test.)

• 9.4% of the people in the deletion list were incorrectly removed. This represents no progress since 2008, despite extra measures taken by the NEC and commune councils to prevent false deletions. (Deletion list-to-people test.)

• The accuracy of voters’ personal data (name, date of birth and address) in the registry declined compared with 2008, with only 63% of dates of birth and 86.4% of names matching information in the voters’ ID documents. In 2008, 78.97% of dates of birth and 87.88% of names matched. (Both tests.)

• 96.5% of respondents on the voter registry indicated they plan to vote in the July elections. However, 74% of respondents who were not found on the voter registry said they intend to vote.