Cambodia's elections: Voter list cleaning and political opponent cleansing

NEW EVIDENCE OF DISENFRANCHISEMENT OF NON-CPP VOTERS:

VOTER LIST CLEANING AND POLITICAL OPPONENT CLEANSING

We have collected new evidence showing a massive disenfranchisement of non-CPP voters.

As of today, 30,115 disenfranchised citizens have protested against the loss of their voting right. See petition with translation in English at http://tinyurl.com/4oeyeg

If, with our limited means and in less than two months, we could identify over 30,000 legitimate voters who tried to vote on July 27 but were not able to do so, and if we could convince them, in the current atmosphere of fear and intimidation, to sign or thumbprint a petition denouncing the authorities, it means that a much larger number of potential voters faced the same voting problem on July 27 and have the same grievance now.

According to Radio Free Asia (RFA) which quoted several reliable sources, over one million voters were disenfranchised because they were suspected of sympathy for the opposition. Read summary in English of the RFA's report at http://tinyurl.com/4osh3t

Actually, the disenfranchisement of non-CPP supporters through manipulation of voter lists started in 2006 and continued until February 2008, thus predetermining the results of the July 27, 2008 election. See relevant press articles at http://tinyurl.com/4pjmgj

In 2007, the opposition rang the alarm bell by issuing a warning titled: "Voter list cleaning and political opponent cleansing." Another SRP statement clearly explained that, under the pretext of "cleaning up" the voter register, the CPP-controlled National Election Committee (NEC) was actually deleting names of eligible voters but keeping ghost voters on the electoral rolls for ballot tampering. See relevant statements at http://tinyurl.com/3o9t9v

The NEC has never responded to a letter from opposition leader Sam Rainsy asking for evidence or reasons justifying the deletion of 585,723 voters' names. Voters should not be required to prove that that they are "not dead" or have "not moved" from the commune. See summary in English of Sam Rainsy's letter protesting against the illegal reversal of the burden of the proof, by clicking at http://tinyurl.com/6eyahu

In June 2008, the Washington-based National Democratic Institute (NDI) estimated that "57,000 voters were wrongly stricken from voter rolls." But any post-election survey now will prove that many more voters were improperly and unfairly disenfranchised through various tricks before and on Voting Day. See corresponding press article at http://tinyurl.com/4j6wrh

The disenfranchisement of non-CPP voters did have a big impact on the election results. As few as five disenfranchised non-CPP voters per polling station unfairly deprived the opposition of one National Assembly seat for a given province/constituency. For instance, the SRP lacks only 1,727 votes to win a parliamentary seat for Svay Rieng province, 3,423 votes to obtain a seat for Pursat province, and 3,269 votes to conquer an additional seat for Kampot province. The HRP lacks only 1,745 votes to win an additional seat for Kampong Cham province, and 3,178 votes to obtain a seat for Kampong Speu province. Sensitivity analyses at http://tinyurl.com/4275dz

No vote recount was allowed by the NEC for any ballot box at any of the 15,254 polling stations in Cambodia's 24 constituencies. See SRP and HRP's letter to U.S. President George W. Bush at http://tinyurl.com/4ly2xd

For more evidence of election rigging nationwide by the NEC and to see the general pattern of a massive election fraud, please click at http://tinyurl.com/4eegak

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