Some issues concerning electoral irregularities

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'What are the real numbers which represent the 69.61% of the 9,675,453 million registered to vote? The answer would be 6,735,083 million who have actually voted in the 2103 election, but the statement issued by the National Election Committee or NEC has shown only at 6,627,159 million, thus there is a discrepancy or missing registered voters of 107,924 divided by 40,000 per Assembly Seating equals 2.69 National Assembly Seats, and this is the first issue.'

Op-ed by XMEN

  

  I am trying to dissect the White Paper issued by the Office of the Council of Ministers Press and Quick Reaction Unit, dated on September 17, 2013, done in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in regards to the 2013 General Election for the 5th Mandate of the National Assembly of Cambodia.

    The intention is to find justice for all Cambodian Citizens where their Statutory, Constitutional and Natural Rights are not being infringed or violated by those who are elected by the people, of the people and for the people. I am doing this not for the sake of seeking fame or fortunes, but simply sharing and defining or interpreting this White Paper based on the Constitutionality and guaranteed under the Electoral Laws.

    According to the World Bank, the data found on Cambodia population was 14,864,646 million since there was no clear record available from Cambodia about the true census of Cambodia, but I am going to use the numbers listed in the White Paper issued by the Council of Ministers and that numbers are 9,675,453 registered voters.

    According to the White Paper issued by the (OCOMPAQRU) or the Office of Council of Ministers Press and Quick Reaction Unit, 69.61% of Cambodian registered voters cast their votes, fulfilling their entitlement as a citizen to choose their political parties to lead the 5th Mandate of the National Assembly of Cambodia.

 

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    What are the real numbers which represent the 69.61% of the 9,675,453 million registered to vote? The answer would be 6,735,083 million who have actually voted in the 2103 election, but the statement issued by the National Election Committee or NEC has shown only at 6,627,159 million, thus there is a discrepancy or missing registered voters of 107,924 divided by 40,000 per Assembly Seating equals 2.69 National Assembly Seats, and this is the first issue. I will list in its entirety of the results by each party and how many votes each party has received the followings:

    First, the Cambodian National Party led by President Seng Sokheng has received 38,123 votes or .0057% (no rounding up).

    Second, FUNCINPEC led by President Norodom Arunrasmey has received 242,413 votes or .0365%.

    Third, the Democratic Republican Party led by President Sovan Panhchakseila has received 33,715 votes or .0050%.

    Fourth, the Cambodian People Party led by President Chea Sim has received 3,235,969 votes or .4882%.

    Fifth, the Khmer Economic Development Party led by President Huon Chamroeun has received 19,152 votes or .0028%.

    Sixth, the Khmer Anti Poverty Party led by President Kravanh Daran has received 43,222 votes or .0065%.

    Seventh, the Cambodia National Rescue Party led by President Sam Rainsy has received 2,946,176 votes or .4445% and finally the

    Eighth political party known as League for Democracy led by President Khem Veasna has received 68,389 votes or .0103%.

    There were 19,009 polling stations throughout Cambodia to serve the registered voters of Cambodia.

    Let us go back to the question as to what has happened to the discrepancy over the 100k plus votes and this question ought to be answered by NEC since they are the committee who was selected by the Cambodian government to oversee the election process. In addition, under NEC rule of elections, NEC was supposed to be the committee to announce the election results, in this case, it would be Mr. Im Soursdei or Mr. Tep Nytha who are members of the NEC but instead, it was Mr. Kheiu Kanharith who made the temporary announcement. Furthermore, how could Mr. Khieu Kanharith has known the results prior to the counting of all votes?  Needless to say, Mr. Kanharith also knew the actual electoral seats of 68 for the Cambodian People Party and 55 for the Cambodia National Rescue Party when in reality, the election is not even finished…this is the second issue.

 Also according to the White Paper the 2013 election went very smooth and in a peaceful manner, when in actuality that was far from being the case. If we go back and do a research on FACEBOOK for truth without bias we will see many voting irregularities, problems such as quadruple names which were held by the same person; Vietnamese nationals with no proper identification who have access to the poll; so-called “ghost voters”, etc. These are some of the problems that the NEC must publically resolved through a public forum where all Cambodians can challenge the NEC and its practices.

 

 Again, according to Mr. Keo Remy’s contention the CNRP has at least five (5) of its observers, COMFREL is included in this number, but if we look at the White Paper issued by the Council of Ministers it shows a different number altogether. Here is the following written statement, and I quote: “The election was held in the presence of 292 international observers and 40,142 national observers including COMFREL’s at all polling stations.” If you add these numbers together it did not make any sense. Here’s the following equation: 40,142 + 292 = 40,434 take this number divided by the 19009 polling stations, hence you have 40,434 / 19009 = 2.127 per polling station, so Mr. Keo Remy’s statement is not accurate.

   I will stop here. Thanks.