The clean up of the ineligible voters has been designed in order to ensure an easy victory for the CPP. The NEC is a political tool of the CPP created as a front to legitimise the CPP's sham democracy. The voters' clean up, as expected, has been carried out with the intention of removing opposition voters and illegally enrolling ineligible or ghost voters whom they think will vote for the CPP. It is a CPP's old trick that will be used again and again in order to cling to power. If the NEC clerks can do this in Phnom Penh how many opposition voters did they remove in the rural areas. And how many CPP voters will they add to the lists. The opposition can only expect to lose again in 2008 election.....
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NEC Defends Voter List Clean-Up as Registration Ends
Seng Ratana, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
22 October 2007
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The National Election Committee Monday strongly defended its voter registration clean-up Monday, saying the removal of illegible names from voter lists had been done in accordance to procedure, as voter registration came to a close.
The NEC has come under heavy criticism from opposition parties, which say the clean-up swiped names of legitimate voters with opposition leanings from the lists. This included impeding new voters from registering through the deadline Saturday, party leaders have said.
Regulations allow for the removal of names of those who are ineligible, such as the deceased, those who have changed their addresses, have duplicate names or are prisoners or non-residents.
Opposition officials said Monday they knew of ruling party clerks removing names of opposition supports from lists without proper justification.
"In Phnom Penh, 10,000 people were processed in one hour, and in other places, in 20 villages, they did it in one morning," SRP legislator Ho Van said. "This means there is no thinking." Puthea Hang, director of the Neutral and Impartial Committee for Free Elections in Cambodia, said many district clerks were not heeding the directives of the NEC and were arbitrarily removing names from lists.
A district the clerk removed 9,899 names, keeping only 487 among over 10,000 eligible voters in Phnom Penh's Tonle Bassac district, Phal Sithon, SRP second deputy clerk, said.
But "the people have not protested," he admitted. "Some of them are busy going to make a living. Most of them did not protest. Speaking frankly, they did not protest."
Tonle Bassac district clerk Khat Narith declined comment.
Commune council members adopted the procedures properly, and name removals were done with little difference in each district, NEC Secretary-General Tep Nitha said.
The first registration lists will be posted Oct. 25, he said
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NEC Defends Voter List Clean-Up as Registration Ends
Seng Ratana, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
22 October 2007
Seng Ratana reports in Khmer-download(1.03 MB)
Listen Seng Ratana reports in Khmer
Vote counting in 2003 general elections (VOA file photo)
The National Election Committee Monday strongly defended its voter registration clean-up Monday, saying the removal of illegible names from voter lists had been done in accordance to procedure, as voter registration came to a close.
The NEC has come under heavy criticism from opposition parties, which say the clean-up swiped names of legitimate voters with opposition leanings from the lists. This included impeding new voters from registering through the deadline Saturday, party leaders have said.
Regulations allow for the removal of names of those who are ineligible, such as the deceased, those who have changed their addresses, have duplicate names or are prisoners or non-residents.
Opposition officials said Monday they knew of ruling party clerks removing names of opposition supports from lists without proper justification.
"In Phnom Penh, 10,000 people were processed in one hour, and in other places, in 20 villages, they did it in one morning," SRP legislator Ho Van said. "This means there is no thinking." Puthea Hang, director of the Neutral and Impartial Committee for Free Elections in Cambodia, said many district clerks were not heeding the directives of the NEC and were arbitrarily removing names from lists.
A district the clerk removed 9,899 names, keeping only 487 among over 10,000 eligible voters in Phnom Penh's Tonle Bassac district, Phal Sithon, SRP second deputy clerk, said.
But "the people have not protested," he admitted. "Some of them are busy going to make a living. Most of them did not protest. Speaking frankly, they did not protest."
Tonle Bassac district clerk Khat Narith declined comment.
Commune council members adopted the procedures properly, and name removals were done with little difference in each district, NEC Secretary-General Tep Nitha said.
The first registration lists will be posted Oct. 25, he said
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