What was reported by the Sam Rainsy-affiliated Khmer Intelligence below has been backed up by many sources from NGOs and the voters themselves. It is a fact that the CPP had planned to do this sometimes back as a long-term strategic ploy to ensure an easy victory at the 2008 election. It is not a co-incidence that many voters were deleted from the lists and many others were added. It was a thoughtful, calculated plan by the CPP to ensure that the oppositions are deprived of a victory. The deleted names were known opposition voters and the added names were CPP's voters or ghost names which can be used to vote for the CPP. The NEC is not a neutral body, but a CPP's political tool created to whitewash Cambodia's sham democratic process.
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Controversial voter lists published today (1)
Today the National Election Committee (NEC) started to publish preliminary voter lists for Cambodia's 1,621 communes, totaling 8,027,706 voters for the whole country, a net increase of 228,335 eligible voters over last year (893,131 names added; 664,796 names deleted). However, the tentative lists which were posted today at all the country's commune offices, are being contested by the opposition Sam Rainsy Party (SRP). According to Sam Rainsy, who held a press conference today in Phnom Penh, the voter register has been manipulated nationwide by the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP), through the NEC, so as to secure election victory for the CPP before even voting day (27 July 2008):
- Tens of thousands of names have been artificially added to inflate voter lists (ghost voters whose names will be fraudulently used by the CPP on voting day, such as the 15,000 names contested by the SRP in Poipet commune alone).
- Tens of thousands of (real) citizens who wanted to register as voters, were not able to do so, especially non-CPP supporters, because of lack of information, administrative harassment and organized confusion.
- CPP-controlled commune councils have arbitrarily deleted 573,981 names (out of the 664,796 names mentioned above) without producing evidence that the concerned persons are really dead or have really and permanently moved away from their commune. A significant portion of the targeted names appear to be those of non-CPP voters, who are therefore unfairly disenfranchised.
- Whereas citizens who are disenfranchised are all Cambodian nationals, tens of thousands of foreign nationals (newly arrived immigrants with no voting right) continue to be included in the voter lists despite countless complaints lodged by the opposition.
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Controversial voter lists published today (1)
Today the National Election Committee (NEC) started to publish preliminary voter lists for Cambodia's 1,621 communes, totaling 8,027,706 voters for the whole country, a net increase of 228,335 eligible voters over last year (893,131 names added; 664,796 names deleted). However, the tentative lists which were posted today at all the country's commune offices, are being contested by the opposition Sam Rainsy Party (SRP). According to Sam Rainsy, who held a press conference today in Phnom Penh, the voter register has been manipulated nationwide by the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP), through the NEC, so as to secure election victory for the CPP before even voting day (27 July 2008):
- Tens of thousands of names have been artificially added to inflate voter lists (ghost voters whose names will be fraudulently used by the CPP on voting day, such as the 15,000 names contested by the SRP in Poipet commune alone).
- Tens of thousands of (real) citizens who wanted to register as voters, were not able to do so, especially non-CPP supporters, because of lack of information, administrative harassment and organized confusion.
- CPP-controlled commune councils have arbitrarily deleted 573,981 names (out of the 664,796 names mentioned above) without producing evidence that the concerned persons are really dead or have really and permanently moved away from their commune. A significant portion of the targeted names appear to be those of non-CPP voters, who are therefore unfairly disenfranchised.
- Whereas citizens who are disenfranchised are all Cambodian nationals, tens of thousands of foreign nationals (newly arrived immigrants with no voting right) continue to be included in the voter lists despite countless complaints lodged by the opposition.
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