Workers Get Three Days Off for July Elections

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PSD-Kiwi wrote: ↑Mon Jun 05, 2023 3:15 am
Doc67 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 04, 2023 5:51 pm
Do they have to return to their home village to vote or can they vote in their local area?
Voting is conducted in your registered Sangkat, most Cambodians never bother to deregister from the Sangkat where they were registered when born when they move elsewhere. However, they can register on the electoral roll of the Sangkat where they currently reside to avoid having to travel to vote, which many don't bother to do.
Do they publish voter turnout numbers? I am thinking about mass voter apathy.
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Doc67 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 04, 2023 5:51 pm
phuketrichard wrote: ↑Sun Jun 04, 2023 5:46 pm Saturday to travel home to collect money from village head man for Sundays vote and Monday to get back to work and also spend it
Do they have to return to their home village to vote or can they vote in their local area?
You vote in the sangkat you are registered in unless you get on the roll of the on you currently live in, which is disencouraged at least in the Sangkat I live in.

If you family book says village A but you've moved but still have the old book you can only vote in village A by default.
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Doc67 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 05, 2023 4:19 am
PSD-Kiwi wrote: ↑Mon Jun 05, 2023 3:15 am
Doc67 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 04, 2023 5:51 pm
Do they have to return to their home village to vote or can they vote in their local area?
Voting is conducted in your registered Sangkat, most Cambodians never bother to deregister from the Sangkat where they were registered when born when they move elsewhere. However, they can register on the electoral roll of the Sangkat where they currently reside to avoid having to travel to vote, which many don't bother to do.
Do they publish voter turnout numbers? I am thinking about mass voter apathy.
Ams miss out on 10-20k riels?
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Doc67 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 05, 2023 4:19 am
PSD-Kiwi wrote: ↑Mon Jun 05, 2023 3:15 am
Doc67 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 04, 2023 5:51 pm
Do they have to return to their home village to vote or can they vote in their local area?
Voting is conducted in your registered Sangkat, most Cambodians never bother to deregister from the Sangkat where they were registered when born when they move elsewhere. However, they can register on the electoral roll of the Sangkat where they currently reside to avoid having to travel to vote, which many don't bother to do.
Do they publish voter turnout numbers? I am thinking about mass voter apathy.
I worked on an election before. There were a lot of spoiled ballots where every box was ticked. I think it was in protest rather than ignorance.
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