By Yun Samean and Elizabeth Tomei
THE CAMBODIA DAILY
The National Election Committee on Friday will begin printing 8 million ballot papers for April’s commune elections, NEC Secretary-General Tep Nytha said Monday. The ballots will be produced at a cost of about $800,000 at Ly Van Hong printing house in Phnom Penh's Tuol Kok district, he said. Election monitors and media will be taken on a tour of the printing house Thursday, but will not be allowed to monitor the month-long printing process, Tep Nytha said. "It is a secret place," he added. Mar Sophal, monitoring coordinator for the Committee for Free and Fair Elections, said that Comfrel is concerned that it will not be able to monitor the ballot production process, as printing errors invalidated ballots cast at six Prey Veng province polling stations during the 2002 commune elections. Mar Sophal also expressed concern about the design of the ballot paper, which does not include boxes for voters to tick.
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