SRP: At Least Seven Irregularities In A Terribly Forged 1018 Voter Identification Form

September 1, 2008
Source: SRP

AT LEAST SEVEN IRREGULARITIES
IN A TERRIBLY FORGED 1018 VOTER IDENTIFICATION FORM

The document with relevant explanation is presented at http://tinyurl.com/57vdu8

The seven irregularities are related to:

1. Holder's name
2. Holder's age
3. Holder's place of birth
4. Stamp on the holder's photo
5. Document's issuing date: July 27, 2008 (Voting Day). The document is backdated March 11, 2007 .
6. Witnesses: They did not put their thumbprints on the 1018 form as required by the law, but two other persons thumbprinted in their place.
7. Commune chief's signature: The person who signed and stamped on the 1018 form was Kheng Koeur, a CPP commune councilor who is neither the commune chief nor a deputy commune chief, and therefore is not entitled to issue any 1018 form.

Holder's real identity as known by everybody in her village:

Name: Doeung Kea
Gender: female
Age: 13 year-old (born in 1995)
Place of birth: Sraeung commune, Prasat Sambor district, Kampong Thom province.

Holder's fake identity as shown on the forged 1018 form:

Name: Dy Aun
Gender: female
Age: 18 year-old (born in 1990)
Place of birth: Sraeung commune, Santuk (sic) district, Kampong Thom province. Sraeung commune is actually located in Prasat Sambor district.

The seven irregularities show that this 1018 form was hastily issued on Voting Day to allow, at the last minute, an illegitimate voter, underage Doeung Kea, to cast a fraudulent ballot for the CPP by taking the identity of a ghost voter named Dy Aun.

We have got hold of a large number of such forged 1018 voter identification forms issued by the CPP local authorities throughout the country, which reflects a general pattern of election fraud designed to substantially inflate the CPP votes. To see a large sample of forged 1018 forms please click at http://tinyurl.com/6cmh94

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Council Rejects Opposition Call for Re-Vote

By Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
27 August 2008

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The Constitutional Council on Wednesday upheld a National Election Committee rejection of an opposition party demand for a new round of voting.

The Sam Rainsy Party had requested another vote, claiming July's election had been illegitimate. The NEC rejected the claim earlier this month, on grounds that the irregularities reported were not supported by evidence.

The Sam Rainsy Party claims that the use of administrative form 1018 in lieu of identification, the omission of voters' names from registries, and other irregularities should be grounds for another election.

The Council hearing Wednesday was the last chance for an appeal, and the last hearing over Sam Rainsy Party election complaints.

The Council will examine complaints from the Human Rights Party Thursday.

SRP: As few as five forged 1018 voter registration forms could change election results

August 14, 2008
Source: SRP

AS FEW AS FIVE FORGED 1018 VOTER REGISTRATION FORMS OR FIVE DISENFRANCHISED NON-CPP VOTERS PER POLLING STATION UNFAIRLY DEPRIVED THE OPPOSITION OF ONE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SEAT

As few as five forged 1018 voter registration forms or five disenfranchised non-CPP voters per polling station unfairly deprived the opposition of one National Assembly seat.

In order to prove that even a small-scale election irregularity could have a significant impact on the election results in terms of National Assembly seats allocated to each political party, the SRP has asked independent experts to produce a computer program allowing the user to easily make the relevant sensitivity analyses.

There were two main irregularities at the July 27, 2008 national election:

1. Deletion of legitimate (non-CPP) voters' names to reduce votes for opposition parties.
2. Forged 1018 forms delivered by CPP commune chiefs to illegitimate voters to inflate votes for the CPP.

To assess, with your own assumptions and estimates, the impact of these two main irregularities on the election results, please go to http://tinyurl.com/63zuyc

Other forms of irregularities and fraud (intimidation, vote buying, control of the broadcast media and use of State resources by the ruling CPP for its election campaign, etc.) are not taken into account in this study.

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NEC can only resolve minor issues ... not election rigging

NEC Rules in Favor of Two Parties

By Seng Ratana, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
06 August 2008

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The Norodom Ranariddh Party in Battambang province and Sam Rainsy Party in Kampong Thom province each won cases in a hearing by the National Election Committee Wednesday.

The NEC ruled that five people who had knocked down SRP signs in Kampong Thom will be ineligible to vote for the next five years.

The NEC ruled that portraits hung in front of an NRP headquarters were not a violation of election law.

The NEC received 44 complaints during the election campaign and 24 on Election Day.

[CPP controlled Constitutional] Council Dismisses Complaint Over NEC

By Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
04 August 2008

The Constitutional Council dismissed an election complaint by the Sam Rainsy Party Friday, claiming it was not in its jurisdiction under election law.

The party had complained against the National Election Committee, for violation of people's rights by omitting names of eligible voters from last month's national election.

SRP lawmaker Yim Sovann said Monday the decision by the Constitutional Council was "not fair at all."

"We have enough evidence for them to decide on the complaint," he said. "This shows that the Constitutional Council has no independence, and there is nothing surprising about the letter, because Constitutional Council members are really CPP members."

The council had made a "political" decision, not a legal won, he added.

Hang Puthea, executive director of Nicfec, expressed regret at the council's decision.

"The Constiutional councils declared that its decision was fair, bu tin a democratic society, each fairness is supported by the other. But right now, this decision is not supported by the opposition party, so the fairness is in the mystery.

Constitutional Council spokesman Penn Thol declined further comment Monday.