Commune election day observations

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Mrs Stroppy went to the market to buy some veggies for dinner and commented on activities around Wat Sansom Kosal (today, a voting place).

It seems senior police are driving around with very large piles of cash on their laps, with lots of printed lists, circling around the pagoda.

Nothing suspicious about that, is there?
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"It seems senior police are driving around with very large piles of cash on their laps, with lots

of printed lists, circling around the pagoda.
Nothing suspicious about that, is there?"

Na, they're just headed to the pagoda to give offerings and prayers for a fair and free election.
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lol ive seen pictures of people holding up some notes in Riel saying theyve been paid by **** party to take part in the demonstration/marches etc
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Some kind of CPP setup IN FRONT of one of our businesses in a Cambodian wedding style shutting the entire street down on Thursday and Friday, and today we were "asked" to shut our business down at the risk of paying a hefty fine. So even thought I can't vote I guess I'm not allowed to work. Kind of enjoying the time off to be honest.

Other than that, haven't even been outside today.
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I live next to a local sangkat "office " and apparently our sangkat lost ro CNRP ....we're in BKK3.
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IraHayes wrote: ↑Sun Jun 04, 2017 7:43 pm I live next to a local sangkat "office " and apparently our sangkat lost ro CNRP ....we're in BKK3.
assuming you meant "lost to CNRP," that's going to make things interesting.
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Yes.. fat finger syndrome I'm afraid. And the number quoted was 82 .. not sure if this is lost by or they got 82 (whatevers) but lost to CNRP ...... we'll have to wait and see if the official figures match lol.
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IraHayes wrote: ↑Sun Jun 04, 2017 8:25 pm Yes.. fat finger syndrome I'm afraid. And the number quoted was 82 .. not sure if this is lost by or they got 82 (whatevers) but lost to CNRP ...... we'll have to wait and see if the official figures match lol.
... once the stuffed ballot boxes are added, of course.
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Licadho saying 85% voter turnout.

http://stream.licadho-cambodia.org/comm ... ions_2017/
17:12 ICT
Jun 4
3 hours ago
According to the NEC, these commune elections saw a turnout of over 85% registered voters.
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The Phnom Penh Post ✔ @phnompenhpost
CNRP candidate Sin Chan Pov Rozet has claimed victory in Battambang’s O’Char commune. Read the backstory here: http://pppo.st/94777
5:57 PM - 4 Jun 2017


She still has a court case hanging over her head too.
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