100 losing individuals to record a grievance
PUBLISHED: 28 Jun 2024 at 04: 00
A winning participant in the Senate vote claimed that there was voter adjustment in the election campaign.
More than 100 candidates who lost in the election will file a complaint with the Election Commission (EC ) to request it to investigate alleged vote rigging, according to Nanthana Nanthawarophas, a senator-elect from a media professional group.
She noted that the applicants with the most seats were seen seated in groups and obstructing communication with another applicants during election.
She claimed that some organizations conspired to rig the effects of some of their votes in order to support a certain group of individuals.
She said,” The EC may look into whether political events were responsible for it.”
Ms. Nanthana stated that she did not want the coupmakers ‘ replacement Senate to remain in office any more because she did not want the EC to completely deny the allegations of cooperation and voting manipulation.
However, she said, the polling place should look into the situation and take legal action against those responsible for alleged anomalies.
She also suggested that people should be able to choose lawmakers in upcoming Senate primaries because it was too complicated and contaminated by fraud allegations.
Somchai Swangkarn, a custodian senator, claimed in a Facebook post that many people had been hired to vote for candidates supported by specific interest groups at the district, municipal, and national levels.
Some individuals running at the neighborhood level were paid 4, 000 ringgit each for membership fees, health inspection fees, travel charges, and image costs, he wrote.
On the eve of the provincial-level poll, Mr. Somchai wrote, they would get another 2, 000 to 3, 000 ringgit to stay in hotels in the provinces.
” But as it happened, these people did not vote for themselves, but rather, almost universally, voted for certain individuals who each ended up among the top 10 getting selected as lawmakers in each of the 20 groupings”, he wrote.
Even though Angkhana Neelapaijit, a former member of the National Human Rights Commission, was a winning member representing a civic society organization, she also managed to win fewer votes than some less well-known winning individuals from Buri Ram, according to Internet Dialogue on Law Transformation (iLaw ) director Yingcheep Atchanont, who also posted on Twitter.
One member from Buri Ram was a previous school director, and the other participant was a previous community health volunteer, both of whom were from Buri Ram, Mr. Yingcheep said.
” They are very high on the list of the top ten with the most vote,” they claim. They gained more seats than Mr Angkhana, who is No. 9 and lower on the list”.