Pattharaporn Tan-ngam, a journalist for Thai PBS, posted a stunning video clip on her private Facebook account, which featured an interview with Pongsatorn Wisetsuwan, the Deputy Managing Director of Thailand Post Co. Ltd. In the video, Pongsatorn revealed that over 300,000 already-cast ballots from the advance voting carried out on April 7 were unreadable as a result of poor handwriting on the envelopes. The envelopes had to be hand-written by the presiding committee on the polling stations, specifying the district and the five-digit election code.
According to the submit shared by Pattharaporn, over 300,000 envelopes containing the advance voting ballots had unreadable handwriting. The publish explained that this was a human error because the committee members at the polling stations had been required to write down the details of the province, district, and the five-digit election code. The unclear handwriting led to issues in the course of the sorting process.
Thailand Post just isn’t held liable for studying or analyzing the problematic ballot envelopes, as this task falls under the jurisdiction of the Election Commission of Thailand (ECT). However, Thailand Post is liable for shortly transporting and sorting over two million ballot envelopes that were used for advance voting, delivering them to over 400 districts nationwide. The sorting course of should be completed by right now reports Sanook.
One cause for the delay in transporting and sorting the advance voting ballots was the time-consuming course of that began proper after the closing of the advance voting polls on April 7. Fully refundable has since employed over 1,000 employees members to work 24 hours a day to expedite the sorting process as quickly as possible..