Talks underway to allow COVID-19 voters at Bangkok elections

[snoop1130]

 

The Disease Control Department has been consulting with the Election Commission about how to enable voters infected with COVID-19 to cast their ballots in the May 22nd Bangkok gubernatorial and councillor elections safely.

 

Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said today (Thursday) that infected voters have the right to cast their ballot as a matter of principle and the fact that they are infected should not deprive them of such a right if they want to exercise it.

 

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So the question is how to arrange for them to vote in a way which is safe for those who are not infected, said the minister, adding that special polling booths may be arranged exclusively for infected voters and that the infected may have to wear two face masks.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/talks-underway-to-allow-covid-19-voters-at-bangkok-elections/

 

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[DezLez]

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

the infected may have to wear two face masks.

The same as the two faces as the so called politicians they are "voting" for have?

 

Can they not allow either postal votes or some form of local collection vote given that every Thai has an ID card?

[DezLez]

It does not say in either the OP or the link but does it mean you have to "prove?" either that you have been vaccinated or have a test before you can vote?

[swm59nj]

I guess absentee ballots have not made it here yet. 

[Kenneth White]

From what I have read, according to the Thai Health Minister COVID will be downgraded July this year to a endemic so that would make COVID voters a moot point. 

[DezLez]

27 minutes ago, Kenneth White said:

From what I have read, according to the Thai Health Minister COVID will be downgraded July this year to a endemic so that would make COVID voters a moot point. 

The election is on 22 May this year!

Edited April 30, 2022 by DezLez

[Kenneth White]

On 5/1/2022 at 6:34 AM, DezLez said:

The election is on 22 May this year!

Thanks, I was thinking the end of this year.

[sammieuk1]

 Don't worry about covid the votes have already been counted ????