Voter registration drive falls behind schedule

Voter registration has fallen far behind schedule over the past two weeks, with enrolment dropping to just 30,000 a day from a target of 100,000, according to official figures, leaving more than 2 million Cambodians at risk of not registering to vote in time.

The new National Election Committee (NEC) has been working since September 1 to re-register people as it rebuilds the national voter list from scratch ahead of the important commune council elections next year. They are scheduled to wrap up the process on November 29.

The committee has said it needs to register about 100,000 people per day to cover all the estimated 9.6 million eligible voters in that time. But its own figures show that no more than 36,000 people have been registered on any of the six days so far this month.

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