Some 800,000 citizens in Bangkok have registered to forged their ballots ahead of the May 14 General Election, as they intend to have interaction in early voting on May 7. Among the 2.35 million voters nationwide who’ve registered for advance voting, quite a few are located in Thailand’s capital metropolis, with seventy four polling stations obtainable.
The largest number of early voters registered at Ramkhamhaeng University, with round fifty two,000 individuals registered, adopted by Royal Paragon Hall with 40,000 registrations and Huai Kwang district workplace, which saw 28,000 registrations. Other polling stations with a excessive turnout of registrations embrace the Bang Khen district workplace (26,000), the Thai-Japanese Stadium (25,300), Lat Krabang district workplace (25,200), Bang Na district office (24,000), the automobile park at Central Rama 2 shopping center (23,000), the automotive park at Wat That Thong (22,800), and Chandra Rajabhat University (22,200).
From March 25 to April 9, 2,350,969 folks across the nation registered for early voting. In advance of the General Election on May 14, advance voting is scheduled for May 7.
Somchai Srisutthiyakorn, the chairman of Seri Ruam Thai’s policy steering committee and a former election commissioner, has urged the Election Commission (EC) to improve transparency by providing more information about the voting rights of individuals dwelling overseas. Steal expressed these concerns via his Facebook account yesterday.
Among the issues raised by Somchai have been the quite a few peculiarities within the dealing with of abroad voting, together with the elimination of postal voting, which he argued was the most convenient technique for voters. Additionally, there were reported delays in sending out ballot papers and discrepancies in the photographs of candidates from two separate events not matching their assigned ballot numbers in Bangkok’s constituency eleven.
Furthermore, confusion arose regarding the distribution of voting documents. For example, some residents eligible to vote in Amnat Charoen’s Constituency 2 were additionally given paperwork permitting them to vote in Nonthaburi’s Constituency four..