Security Boost For Sunday's Bangkok City And District Councilor Elections

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Security boost for Sunday's city and district councilor elections

BANGKOK, Aug 28 - Security has been stepped up across the Thai capital ahead of Sunday's election for city and district council members while the poll agency expected more than half of all eligible voters will turn out for polling.

Senior advisor to the Royal Thai Police Pol Gen Wutthi Phuawade on Saturday called a meeting of commanders of Metropolitan Police Division 1 to 9 to lay out security plans for the election of Bangkok city council and district council members on Sunday August 29.

Gen Wutthi has instructed ten police stations to closely monitor the situation as polling complaints have been frequently made in their supervised areas.

Police officers will be deployed at 10,766 polling units across Bangkok on Sunday.

Meanwhile, Election Commissioner Prapan Naikowit said while observing preparations of the upcoming election that a computerised polling calculation system will be used in 50 city councillor contests and 36 constituencies for district council members.

Mr Prapan said he believes more than 50 per cent of all eligible voters will turn out on Sunday and they will not confuse with the two local elections as the polling booth of the city and district councillors will be obviously separated.

The Election Commissioner said the polling agency wants the election being held peacefully and that police officers will be deployed during the election and the poll calculation.

Mr Prapan said he expects an unofficial election result for 36 constituencies of district councillors at 8pm and at midnight for 50 constituencies of city council members. (MCOT online news)

-- TNA 2010-08-28

[chmiroau]

Yippee, now we can all go shopping safely again.

[rubl]

Hopefully this means those pickup's with LOUDspeakers will stop driving around. 30 second slogans followed by 5 minutes of popular song during the day was getting a bit too much. As far as I'm concerned the 'no alcohol on election day' part is much less annoying.

The EC expects at least 50% of voters will bother to do so. Well let's hope the rain won't interfere in this democratic process.

[Deeral]

Presumably part of the police's duties will be to deter any Redshirts from voting?

Edited August 28, 2010 by Deeral

[rubl]

Presumably part of the police's duties will be to deter any Redshirts from voting?

Sorry to say this is a stupid remark insinuating the police would stoop to such measures. During the March - May 'activities' they seemed to help the reds more than obstruct them. Also if they had wanted to stop reds from voting, stopping votes for UDD leader K. Korkeaw might have made more sense. No the police will be very busy to check no-one buys, carries or drinks alcohol. We can't have that on Election Day

[thaimelody]

Presumably part of the police's duties will be to deter any Redshirts from voting?

Sorry to say this is a stupid remark insinuating the police would stoop to such measures. During the March - May 'activities' they seemed to help the reds more than obstruct them. Also if they had wanted to stop reds from voting, stopping votes for UDD leader K. Korkeaw might have made more sense. No the police will be very busy to check no-one buys, carries or drinks alcohol. We can't have that on Election Day

yes i agree with rubi one should not assume the police would be up to anything. Besides they are very busy with the upholding of transparent fines procedures for highway users:rolleyes:

[hungryhippo]

Why are they going with electronic voting when it has been shown to be hackable in almost every single country that has implemented it from the US to India.

[asiawatcher]

"...Police officers will be deployed at 10,766 polling units across Bangkok on Sunday.

So this means half a cop per polling station?

[Deeral]

Why are they going with electronic voting when it has been shown to be hackable in almost every single country that has implemented it from the US to India.

....and any other system is better or more tamper-proof?

you should learn to see things in context - try a bit of critical thinking.

[Buchholz]

Presumably part of the police's duties will be to deter any Redshirts from voting?

Hopefully part of the police's duties will be to deter any Redshirts from bombing polling stations.

[Deeral]

...and on what evidence do you base that remark?

[rubl]

...and on what evidence do you base that remark?

Probably on the same type of evidence you based your remark. His less stupid than yours IMHO.

[Buchholz]

...and on what evidence do you base that remark?

History.

Police arrest 'Red Shirts' over Bangkok bomb attempt

4 More Bombers Identified as Red Shirt Sympathisers

Big C Bomb Suspects Linked to Major-General Khattiya's Henchmen

Another Red-shirt Riot Suspect Nabbed

UDD guard behind bombing to surrender to police

That King Power blast came less than a week after a small bomb exploded at a Bangkok bus stop, killing one person and injuring 10 in an attack that rekindled tensions in the capital two months after the end of bloody street protests. A man linked to the "Red Shirt" demonstrations was arrested over the July 30 explosion.

Edited August 29, 2010 by Buchholz

[SomTumTiger]

Democrats on there way to a landslide victory in Bangkok. Lastest updates have Dems with 43 seats, Puea Thai with 16, one Independent, and New Politics 0. Looks like Bangkokians give a big F*cuk you to both Reds AND Yellows.

[asiawatcher]

Democrats on there way to a landslide victory in Bangkok. Lastest updates have Dems with 43 seats, Puea Thai with 16, one Independent, and New Politics 0. Looks like Bangkokians give a big F*cuk you to both Reds AND Yellows.

Nice - we live in hope!

[Deeral]

heaven forbid that Bkk should allow the hoi polloi into politics.....

mind you, why break the habit of a century or two?

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Democrat Sweep 210 Out Of 256 Bangkok District Council Seats

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