Alcohol banned ahead of advance voting

By The Nation

 

 

Sales and the distribution of alcoholic drinks will be banned from 6pm on Saturday for 24 hours, ahead of advance general election voting on Sunday, according to the Royal Thai Police.

 

Violations of the ban are punishable by imprisonment of up to six months or a fine up to Bt10,000.

 

The restriction is imposed to prevent electoral fraud such as vote buying or bribery. It is believed that canvassers usually try to bribe voters in different ways, including throwing parties the night before the poll, to attract votes.

 

Deputy spokesman of the Royal Thai Police Kritsana Pattanacharoen on Friday warned all sectors to be careful not to violate the electoral laws. Any wrongdoings can be report around the clock at the hotlines 191, 1599 or 1422 press 2.

 

Kritsana also said police has been prepared for the advance voting this Sunday as well as election day next week.

 

Police will take care of security at the polling stations as well as the  management of road traffic to facilitate voters exercising their rights, he said.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/politics/30365889

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2019-03-15

All military officers and OR's bars closed from 6pm. Likewise all RTP controlled bars and nightclubs pavement drinking bars will close at 6pm by order of PM Prayut. You better believe it!

44 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

Police will take care of security at the polling stations

I thought that was the job of the Army to intimidate voters into voting for the junta party.

Easy, tomorrow I walk the dog 2 hours earlier than usual, drink a bit faster, get myself (and the dog) a nice hangover, on Sunday walk the dog after nursing the hangover aka 2-3 hours later, and get pissed afterwards.

The only problem is probably that not many shops open at all, those who do, don't give a shit anyhow. Another one of the 3 Billion stupid laws in Thailand.

2 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

It is believed that canvassers usually try to bribe voters in different ways, including throwing parties the night before the poll, to attract votes.

If that is the case, why not ban the consumption of alcohol?? There is nothing stopping me (or a canvasser, for example) form buying alcohol any time before 6pm tomorrow, and then throwing a huge party...????

11 hours ago, SABloke said:

If that is the case, why not ban the consumption of alcohol?? There is nothing stopping me (or a canvasser, for example) form buying alcohol any time before 6pm tomorrow, and then throwing a huge party...????

Watch out for not being taken to CSA (Common Sense Adjustment)????

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The restriction is imposed to prevent electoral fraud such as vote buying or bribery

The vote buying and bribery has already been completed with money from the Thai Niyom slush fund. There was no alcohol ban when that was being done at the time of the mobile cabinet meetings.

24-hour alcohol ban for Sunday advance voting

By THE NATION WEEKEND

 

File photo/AFP

 

The sale and distribution of drinks containing alcohol will be banned from 6pm on Friday for the next 24 hours and during advance voting tomorrow, according to the Royal Thai Police.

 

Violations of the ban are punishable by imprisonment of up to six months or a fine of up to Bt10,000.

 

The restriction is imposed in Thailand’s elections to prevent electoral fraud such as vote-buying or bribery. It is believed that canvassers often try to bribe voters using a variety of tactics, including by throwing parties the night before the poll in order to attract votes.

 

Police deputy spokesman Kritsana Pattanacharoen yesterday warned all sectors to take care they did not violate electoral laws. Any wrongdoing can be reported around the clock to hotlines 191, 1599 or 1422 and press 2.

The deputy spokesman also said the police were well prepared for advance voting on Sunday as well as for the March 24 election.

 

Police will ensure security at polling stations, as well as manage road traffic to help voters exercise their rights, Kritsana said.

 

Police officers will also be on standby to deal with any irregularities during the election, he said. This includes actions on social networking websites that may violate electoral laws, propagate false information, incite hatred or defame election rivals, Kritsana said. 

 

The advance voting will run from 8am to 5pm on Sunday in designated polling stations. Over 2.6 million of the over 51 million eligible voters have registered to vote outside their home constituencies in Thailand.

 

Those who have registered for early voting but fail to turn up on Sunday will not be eligible to exercise their right on the official election day next week.

 

The EC also advised those voting on Sunday to ensure they get the numbers of their favoured candidates right. The numbers must be based on their home constituencies, not the constituencies in which they had registered to cast their ballot. 

 

According to the EC, all the advance-voting ballots for all 350 constituencies will be collected and stored in Bangkok before being sorted within two days. They would then be sent to their home constituencies to be counted along with the ballots cast on March 24.

 

The sorted ballots would be kept at Bangkok’s police stations before being driven to their rightful constituencies by 300 trucks provided by Thailand Post. A surveillance camera will be placed in each truck and a police car will accompany it on the journey.

 

All ballots will also have special tags and documents accompanying them, the EC said. Anyone with missing tags would be deemed spoiled in order to prevent any fraud, the EC added.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/politics/30365897

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2019-03-16

This really does show how brainless these people running things really are. Preventing an entire country from buying alcohol whilst the entire country is drinking (pre-bought) alcohol is just a complete nonsense from power hungry idiots who couldn't rub two brain cells together.

I bet my house that I can wander up to my local 'Mom and Pop' shop and buy unlimited booze to my heart's desire.

 

Any takers?

 

 

 

 

Edited March 16, 20197 yr by Samui Bodoh

The sale and distribution of drinks containing alcohol will be banned from 6pm on Friday for the next 24 hours and during advance voting tomorrow,

Saturday I dare say.

No proof readers?

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30 minutes ago, Cadbury said:

The vote buying and bribery has already been completed with money from the Thai Niyom slush fund. There was no alcohol ban when that was being done at the time of the mobile cabinet meetings.

Was this in the news? Who got busted for bribery? Or is it just an investigation? So which industrialist is paying off the candidates. Bribery is an important thing! Names, dates, details, please! This is big! Since you seem to know all about it, what are you going to do if they want you to be a witness? Fascinating! Tell us more!

9 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

This really does show how brainless these people running things really are. Preventing an entire country from buying alcohol whilst the entire country is drinking (pre-bought) alcohol is just a complete nonsense from power hungry idiots who couldn't rub two brain cells together.

Lot of angst over booze, is your liver jonesing?

Is this a ban for saturday and Sunday March 16th and 17th?

Does it mean that in restaurants (even if you are bringing your own wine) you cannot consume it?

I bet my house that I can wander up to my local 'Mom and Pop' shop and buy unlimited booze to my heart's desire.
 
Any takers?
 
 
 
 

My 'grandma and grandpa' shop at least wraps the bottles in newspaper. Old school. [emoji5]

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18 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

According to the EC, all the advance-voting ballots for all 350 constituencies will be collected and stored in Bangkok before being sorted within two days. They would then be sent to their home constituencies to be counted along with the ballots cast on March 24

Ah, the word 'sorted' is interesting.

An excellent logistics decision to allow manipulation securing of the ballot papers in one location.

42 minutes ago, Cadbury said:

The vote buying and bribery has already been completed with money from the Thai Niyom slush fund. There was no alcohol ban when that was being done at the time of the mobile cabinet meetings.

Sometimes it helps to be dead drunk to participate in a farce...

12 hours ago, SABloke said:

If that is the case, why not ban the consumption of alcohol?? There is nothing stopping me (or a canvasser, for example) form buying alcohol any time before 6pm tomorrow, and then throwing a huge party...????

And due to all commercial premises being unable to sell alcohol, these parties can expect higher than normal numbers of attendees for canvassers to influence.

 

After 24, they can celebrate the winner (junta?), with all the alcohol that the didn’t drink the day before.

 

 

 

17 minutes ago, Lupatria said:

Sometimes it helps to be dead drunk to participate in a farce...

At least while you're drunk there's a better chance of laughing at the stupidity of it all.

☘️ St Patrick’s Day 17 March ☘️????????????????????????☘️ will stay at home got my bottle of Irish whiskey ☘️☘️☘️☘️

Happy St Patrick's Day crazykopite.

 

Have a good one.

42 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

Ah, the word 'sorted' is interesting.

An excellent logistics decision to allow manipulation securing of the ballot papers in one location.

St Patrick Day tomorrow 

Sunday

, 

March 17

Banned or not is still the same in this country.

Poor Irish Day Celebrations  Sunday March 17 ST PATRICKS DAY 

Whats Six Miles Long, Drunk, Green and has an IQ of 20....

 

The St Pattys Day Parade.

 

Ka ching.

 

Is that rascist or ethnicist enough? Am I a hater yet? Want more?

52 minutes ago, bkksiam said:

Is this a ban for saturday and Sunday March 16th and 17th?

Does it mean that in restaurants (even if you are bringing your own wine) you cannot consume it?

The way I read and understand the statement is that you'd have no problem "consuming" your own alcohol in a restaurant, provided you didn't "distribute" it to others, and assuming the restaurant didn't object.

 

The OP statement is clear that it can't be sold or distributed, to prevent using pre-bought booze being used to throw parties.

Geez, even north korea celebrate election time.

Poor Irish Day Celebrations  Sunday March 17 ST PATRICK DAY 

Everyone is in a drunken haze in CM ban or no ban ????

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Violations of the ban are punishable by imprisonment of up to six months or a fine up to Bt10,000.

Speechless….