Some 800,000 residents in Bangkok have registered to solid their ballots forward of the May 14 General Election, as they intend to engage in early voting on May 7. Among the 2.35 million voters nationwide who’ve registered for advance voting, quite a few are located in Thailand’s capital city, with 74 polling stations obtainable.
The largest number of early voters registered at Ramkhamhaeng University, with around 52,000 individuals registered, followed by Royal Paragon Hall with forty,000 registrations and Huai Kwang district office, which noticed 28,000 registrations. Other polling stations with a high turnout of registrations include the Bang Khen district office (26,000), the Thai-Japanese Stadium (25,300), Lat Krabang district workplace (25,200), Bang Na district office (24,000), the automobile park at Central Rama 2 shopping mall (23,000), the automobile park at Wat That Thong (22,800), and Chandra Rajabhat University (22,200).
From March 25 to April 9, 2,350,969 individuals across the nation registered for early voting. In advance of the General Election on May 14, advance voting is scheduled for May 7.
Somchai Srisutthiyakorn, the chairman of Seri Ruam Thai’s coverage steering committee and a former election commissioner, has urged the Election Commission (EC) to enhance transparency by providing more information about the voting rights of people dwelling overseas. Somchai expressed these issues through his Facebook account yesterday.
Among the issues raised by Somchai had been the numerous peculiarities within the handling of overseas voting, together with the elimination of postal voting, which he argued was essentially the most convenient method for voters. Additionally, there were reported delays in sending out ballot papers and discrepancies within the pictures of candidates from two separate events not matching their assigned ballot numbers in Bangkok’s constituency eleven.
Furthermore, Insane arose concerning the distribution of voting documents. For example, some citizens eligible to vote in Amnat Charoen’s Constituency 2 had been also given paperwork allowing them to vote in Nonthaburi’s Constituency 4..