Slightly before the July 27, 2008 election the National Election Committee deleted 585,723 names from the voter registry. First, voters whose names were submitted for deletion were blacklisted. They then had to prove that they were "not dead" and had "not moved" from the commune if they wanted to be taken out of the black list (called 1025 Form}, which was established on the basis of indications/allegations from CPP-affiliated village chiefs. Of course, most of the blacklisted people were non-CPP supporters whom the CPP wanted to disenfranchise. It was an illegal reversal of the burden of the proof. This is why, in an August 22, 2008 letter to NEC President Im Suosdey, SRP President Sam Rainsy asks for evidence on which the NEC based its decision to delete the 585,723 names.
While deliberately deleting names of legitimate voters suspected of sympathy for the opposition, the NEC has deliberately kept on the voter registry names of people who do not exist or are not present, so as to allow the ruling party to make good use of ghosts' names by issuing forged 1018 Forms to illegitimate voters. The recent voter list "clean up" process allowed the NEC/CPP to kill two birds with one stone: reduce votes for the opposition, and inflate votes for the CPP.
See Sam Rainsy's original letter in Khmer at http://tinyurl.com/6eyahu
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