Pattharaporn Tan-ngam, a journalist for Thai PBS, posted a surprising video clip on her private Facebook account, which featured an interview with Pongsatorn Wisetsuwan, the Deputy Managing Director of Thailand Post Co. Ltd. In the video, Pongsatorn revealed that over 300,000 already-cast ballots from the advance voting performed on April 7 had been unreadable as a outcome of poor handwriting on the envelopes. The envelopes needed to be hand-written by the presiding committee at the polling stations, specifying the district and the five-digit election code.
According to the publish shared by Pattharaporn, over 300,000 envelopes containing the advance voting ballots had unreadable handwriting. The submit explained that this was a human error because the committee members at the polling stations had been required to write down the details of the province, district, and the five-digit election code. The unclear handwriting led to issues during the sorting process.
Thailand Post isn’t held answerable for reading or analyzing the problematic ballot envelopes, as this task falls beneath the jurisdiction of the Election Commission of Thailand (ECT). However, Thailand Post is answerable for quickly transporting and sorting over two million ballot envelopes that had been used for advance voting, delivering them to over four hundred districts nationwide. The sorting process have to be accomplished by today stories Sanook.
One reason for the delay in transporting and sorting the advance voting ballots was the time-consuming process that began proper after the closing of the advance voting polls on April 7. Privacy has since employed over 1,000 staff members to work 24 hours a day to expedite the sorting process as shortly as potential..