Comfrel sees 'unusual' activities in voter registration

PHNOM PENH, 26 September 2012 (Cambodia Herald) - The Committee for Free and Fair Elections (Comfrel) says it has noticed "unusual" activities in voter registration for next year's elections.

Such activities include commune clerks coming late for work, failing to close last year's name lists and registering names without voters being present, a statement said.

But the statement, released Tuesday, also praised some commune clerks and said there were no complaints over the registration process since opposition parties failed to send any observers.

Commune clerks have so far registered 404,738 new voters, adjusted 38,520 names and removed 140,444 others. Comfrel also estimated that more than 54,000 names had been registered twice, the same estimate as the National Election Committee.