Hundreds of Names deleted from voter list in Sangkat Boeng Tumpun On 26 July 2008 , official NEC voter lists were pinned up at polling stations for the 27 July election. At the Sangkat Boeng Tumpun polling stations in Meanchey district, hundreds of registered voters could not find their names on the list. In most cases, only one person out of an entire family was listed. Some of these families should have had six or seven registered voters. Of those who were left off the list, most had the appropriate documentation in hand to prove it. Many of these people had discovered several months earlier that their names were not on the voter list. Then, they complained to the electoral officials who reassured them, but today they discover that their names are still missing from the voter list. At the polling stations, the deleted voters had no recourse as no officials were present. SRP Members of Parliament For additional information, please contact Oung Setha 092 356 488 Phnom Penh, 28 July 2008 We were right to ring the alarm bell The above 26 July 2008 statement had rightly rung the alarm bell: On Voting day, i.e. 27 July 2008, several thousands of citizens who came to vote at the polling stations in Phnom Penh's Sangkat (commune) of Boeng Tumpun, actually did not find their names on the voter lists and were turned away. The hundreds of citizens who had come to check their names the previous day (26 July 2008) were only a portion of all those in the same commune of Boeng Tumpun who found out with anger that they were disenfranchised. The same incident happened in virtually all communes throughout the country, which reflects a general pattern of manipulation of voter lists in order to disenfranchise a portion of the electorate which the CPP local authorities have identified as non-supportive of the ruling party. SRP Members of Parliament |
