MFP candidate demands General Election in Sattahip to be void

[webfact]

Photo via WeR News

 

by Petch Petpailin

A Member of Parliament (MP) from the Move Forward Party (MFP), Nitchanan Wangkahart, demanded the Election Commission of Thailand (EC) invalidate the General Election results in the Sattahip district of Chon Buri province after corruption allegations emerged.

 

On Monday, May 15, a Thai voter, Wiranda Pandee, and others spotted that votes in the 10th constituency of the Sattahip district exceeded the actual number of voters.

According to the constituency EC, 93,252 residents cast their ballots. Among these ballots, 87,961 were deemed valid, 7,229 were considered invalid, and 3,057 were marked no vote. The total ballots were at 98,247 which exceeds the number of voters at 93,252 by nearly 5,000.

 

Chon Buri Provincial EC Office Director Witchuda Mekhanuwong reported that the ballots were moved from the polling station to the EC office waiting for further investigation. She explained that the exceeded votes occurred due to human error when recording the votes in the system. The EC will decide later whether the ballots would be recounted or not.

 

Aside from voting confusion, about 10 residents in the district filed a complaint with the police yesterday, May 16, that they voted for candidate number 8 from the Bhumjaithai Party, Suree Kaewkanha, but were surprised to see that the candidate received no votes according to the unofficial results.

 

One of the complainants, 43 year old Salikakorn Dill, told KhaoSod that she did not see the candidate getting any votes. On election day, she visited Sattahip District Office after hearing rumours that the ballot counting would take place there. However, it turned out that the counting was conducted at the polling station itself.

 

Yesterday, the MFP’s Party-list Proportional Representation of MFP, Benja Saengchan, together with MFP’s MP candidate of the Sattahip district, Nitchanan Wangkahart, submitted the formal request to the EC to nullify the General Election results in the area and conduct a fresh election.

 

Full story: https://thethaiger.com/news/national/mfp-candidate-demands-general-election-in-sattahip-to-be-void

 

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[Sydebolle]

Honest mistake, they must have used American vote counting machines ......... 8-) 

[Eloquent pilgrim]

 

5,000 More votes recorded than the number of people on the electoral register ……. how poignant is the message on the tee-shirt of the MP

 

“The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.”

[rbkk]

Artificial Intelligence has more chance of counting correctly than Thai intelligence.

[Sydebolle]

3 hours ago, Sydebolle said:

Honest mistake, they must have used American vote counting machines ......... 8-) 

An actual picture of how open baskets and open bags were moved from Paragon on the 1st election weekend 7 May 2023 ;-) 

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

According to the constituency EC, 93,252 residents cast their ballots. Among these ballots, 87,961 were deemed valid, 7,229 were considered invalid, and 3,057 were marked no vote. The total ballots were at 98,247 which exceeds the number of voters at 93,252 by nearly 5,000.

Oooop's EC fair an impartial