New electoral mode takes all votes into account, says CDC

Tanakorn Sangiam

BANGKOK, 13 February 2016 (NNT) – The new single-ballot electoral mode will take all votes into account and prevent confusion among voters, said Constitution Drafting Commission member Prapan Naikowit.

In a television broadcast program, he assured that the new voting method stipulated in the draft constitution will take all votes into account and provide justice to all sides.

The single-ballot mode will require voters to directly cast their vote for members of the House of Representatives in each constituency while the number of party-listed members will be calculated on basis of the number of votes which each party may have.

The CDC member said the new electoral system will prevent confusion among the public given the single ballot and help save costs for the organizing of an election.

-- NNT 2016-01-14

All votes were taken into account in the old system.

Except when elections were blocked.

These guys in the CDC have created a system where a vote for a loser counts twice... that should help the Dems...

All votes were taken into account in the old system.

Except when elections were blocked.

These guys in the CDC have created a system where a vote for a loser counts twice... that should help the Dems...

Yes, but then that is rather the point...

Unless of course the system works so that, in an election the purple party, winning 60% of the vote, takes 60% of the constituency seats and 60% of the party list seats.

However if the orange party (on 40%) are the favoured ones, then no doubt there will be circumstances which call for "unscheduled troop movements"!

help save costs for the organizing of an election

The Prayut regime has spent in 20 months hundreds of billions baht on popullist and/or Pracharat programs, military weapons, greatly expanded government with adjunct committees, pay raises for military and civil service, two draft constitutions, expanded control of all news and social media, expanded military force to contain the Southern insurgency, not to mention hundreds of billions baht in lost GDP growth from failed economic policies. All on the back of the national treasury and the economic future of the Thai people.

The cost for organizing the next election should be the least of the anyone's concerns.

If democracy was measured in cost, it would be more effective to return Thailand to the pre-1933 absolute monarchy.

help save costs for the organizing of an election

The Prayut regime has spent in 20 months hundreds of billions baht on popullist and/or Pracharat programs, military weapons, greatly expanded government with adjunct committees, pay raises for military and civil service, two draft constitutions, expanded control of all news and social media, expanded military force to contain the Southern insurgency, not to mention hundreds of billions baht in lost GDP growth from failed economic policies. All on the back of the national treasury and the economic future of the Thai people.

The cost for organizing the next election should be the least of the anyone's concerns.

If democracy was measured in cost, it would be more effective to return Thailand to the pre-1933 absolute monarchy.

And that, I suspect would be their absolute hearts desire. A small group wielding absolute power in the name of the monarch.

Of course that may well be how things end up. Nature will take its course, and there will shortly be a vacancy which could well go to a distinguished retired military man, who has also served as Prime Minister. I'm not privy to who is likely to get the post, but I wouldn't mind betting that with the title will come a significant amount of power, untrammeled by things like parliaments and elections.