Preliminary voting by authority
Posted By admin on August 7, 2008
Preliminary voting ere done (in the respective township) during from the third week of April to the first week of May, 2008 in Nankam, Muse, Kutkai, Theinee, Lashio, Namtu, Thipaw, Kyaukme, Nanseng and Mantong townships. Responsible persons for polling booths had to attend, watch and guide the vote casting of the invited people to approve the constitution.
In charges of polling booths and all the responsible persons for polling booths were instructed more to prepare to prevent people from voting ‘no’ than to follow the procedure of the referendum. It was reported by the teachers who were assigned to be in charges of the polling booths in the region.
People who came for the preliminary voting were asked to practice only to vote ‘yes’ repeatedly. Although it was a right to vote secretly as one’s own will, responsible persons of the polling booths were taught ways and means to know who vote ‘no’ and to change the ‘no’ ballots’ to ‘yes ballots’.
In some preliminary voting, it was openly instructed that people who’d vote no sentenced to three ears imprisonment and fined a hundred thousands kyats. As for the responsible persons who were government employees would be dismissed or transferred other part of the country.
Daw——-, who was an incharge of No. 8 quarter in Namtu was dismissed from supervisory committee for the polling booth and suspended from her duty of an in charge for being found ’70 no ballots’ while she was serving as the in charge of the polling booth in a preliminary voting.
One of the members of a polling booth commission told that there was a direct instruction from upper commission that if they had once got all “yes ballots” in a preliminary voting section, they must take it as a real voting and record it. Those voters didn’t need to vote again.
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