The people have (not) voted.
The people have (not) voted.
Two thirds of eligible Cambodian voters have not registered to vote by the end of regisistration (yesterday). By contrast, an unprecedented 90.37% of voters registered to vote only a few months ago for the commune elections with the opposition garnering almost 50% of the vote in the election..
Voter registration wraps with two-thirds of remaining eligible voters still unregistered.
http://m.phnompenhpost.com/node/98516
Voter registration wraps with two-thirds of remaining eligible voters still unregistered.
http://m.phnompenhpost.com/node/98516
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Re: The people have (not) voted.
More than 1 million Cambodians won't be able to vote in 2018 election
11 November 2017
PHNOM PENH: More than one million Cambodians will not be able to vote in next year's general election after voter registration closed on Thursday (Nov 9)...
For election observers,[ however,] such absence could have great impact on Cambodia's politics.
“We are sorry that people working overseas did not register," said Sam Kuntheamy, executive director of the Neutral and Impartial Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia ( NICFEC). "It means that they have lost their right to vote. We wanted them to register and vote to choose their representatives.”
The absence, he explained, resulted from a complicated voter registration process, which requires Cambodian migrant workers to leave work in order to register for the polls.
"They had to travel back and forth, spending a lot of money. It's also difficult to ask for permission to leave work," said Moeung Manh, a motorbike taxi driver from Prey Veng province.
About 80 per cent of the residents in his village with voting rights work in Thailand, including his two sisters and their spouses. Manh said many villagers did not get to vote in the communal election earlier this year and will also be unable to cast their ballots in next year's polls.
"Some parents also think the political situation is so messed up that they told their children working in Thailand not to come back," he added...
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asi ... 18-9397038
11 November 2017
PHNOM PENH: More than one million Cambodians will not be able to vote in next year's general election after voter registration closed on Thursday (Nov 9)...
For election observers,[ however,] such absence could have great impact on Cambodia's politics.
“We are sorry that people working overseas did not register," said Sam Kuntheamy, executive director of the Neutral and Impartial Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia ( NICFEC). "It means that they have lost their right to vote. We wanted them to register and vote to choose their representatives.”
The absence, he explained, resulted from a complicated voter registration process, which requires Cambodian migrant workers to leave work in order to register for the polls.
"They had to travel back and forth, spending a lot of money. It's also difficult to ask for permission to leave work," said Moeung Manh, a motorbike taxi driver from Prey Veng province.
About 80 per cent of the residents in his village with voting rights work in Thailand, including his two sisters and their spouses. Manh said many villagers did not get to vote in the communal election earlier this year and will also be unable to cast their ballots in next year's polls.
"Some parents also think the political situation is so messed up that they told their children working in Thailand not to come back," he added...
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asi ... 18-9397038
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