UEC Announcement: Voting Irregularities In MDY Region Issued

Union Election Commission (UEC) issued an announcement on the 1st of June. It stated that regarding the Multiparty General Election held on the 8th of November 2020, the UEC inspected the voters lists and casting of votes in 28 Townships of Mandalay Region (not including Union Territory).

The findings showed the differences of voter lists between the previous election commission and the Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population in November 2020 of these 28 townships.

The voter lists also mentioned the numbers of non-identity voters, as well as the voters who repeated on the voter lists more than three times and two times under the same scrutiny card in each township.

The UEC has inspected the withdrawal/receipt/use and remaining of ballot papers used for Pyi Thu Hluttaw Election in these 28 townships together with the respective township election sub-commission, head of police force, Immigration and Population and administrator according to the Hluttaw Election Law Section 53.

According to the ground inspection, a total of 5,447 Poll stations in these 28 townships took out 5,467,884 ballots and used 3,792,347. The findings showed that 1, 507,778 ballots were left instead of 1, 675,537.

221,546 ballots were missing while there were 53,787 extra ballots. The extra and shortage ballots and illegal extra ballots were found at respective poll stations.