UEC Announcement: Union Election Commission Issues Announcement

The Union Election Commission (UEC) issued an announcement on the 6th of July. 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 18 townships of Kachin State.

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 18 townships. The voter lists also mentioned the numbers of non-identified voters, as well as 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 18 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 919 Poll stations in these 18 townships took out 1,301,094 ballots and used 761,324.

The findings showed that 536,889 ballots were left instead of 539,770. 9,449 ballots were missing while there were 6,568 extra ballots. The extra and shortage ballots and illegal extra ballots were found at their respective poll stations.