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Electoral fraud
Cambodian legislative election was a big mess,
Anything but a real election
By Arnaud Vaulerin
Vote tallies show in detail the extent of fraud in a poll that gave a landslide victory to the Cambodian People's Party (CPP).
Reading vote tallies related to Cambodia 's July 27 legislative elections is breathtaking (…).
Grotesque. In a vote tally seen by Libération, one can notice, for instance, that there were 115 ballots cast at a polling station in the constituency of Prey Veng (in the south-eastern part of the country). But there is a little arithmetical problem: the document specifies that the CPP alone obtained 224 votes, versus 82 for the HRP and 72 for the SRP, which are the main opposition parties [see Document # 1 below].
In even more grotesque proportions, the mistake repeats itself in the constituency of Kampong Speu (a province south-west of Phnom Penh ): a vote tally sheet shows a total of 526 ballots cast. But, before reaching this total, it is written that the CPP has grabbed as many as 1,139 votes [see Document # 2 below].
Other vote tallies show how many votes each party has collected but without indicating the total number of valid votes cast at the corresponding polling stations [see Document # 3 below], or they do not specify the number of registered voters at a specific polling station [see Document # 4 below].
[Sometimes, even worse, there are no indications whatsoever for both the total number of votes actually cast and the number of registered voters at a specific polling station: see Document # 5 below].
Another frequent irregularity: a voter register lists twice [or even three times] the same name [see Document # 6 below]. Sometimes [in the same voter list for a given village or polling station], four voters are registered twice [see Documents # 7 and # 8 below], etc.
[The CPP used names of ghost voters and names of persons who are registered more than once, to issue forged voter identification documents to illegitimate voters to inflate the CPP votes. See reports on "1018 Forms" at http://tinyurl.com/5eo33w and http://tinyurl.com/57vdu8 ].
[For more evidence of election rigging nationwide by the CPP-controlled National Election Committee, please click at http://tinyurl.com/4eegak ]
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