Chin

Election monitor documented the lack of sealed ballots in Chin State on the day of polls.

According to media reports, eight nineteen year-olds in Chin State who had ID were told not to vote.

SOURCE: Khonumthung

အသက္ ၁၉ ႏွစ္ၿပည့္ၿပီး ႏုိ္င္ငံသားမွတ္ပုံတင္ရွိထားသူ ၈ ဦးကုိ မဲမထည့္ခုိင္းေၾကာင္း ထပ္မံသိရသည္။

A voter from Chin State who spoke to Burma Election Tracker said: "We voted for the Chin National Party (CNP). The fraud committed by the USDP and the Election Commission was the follwing:
1. In one district, there were 50,000 eligible voters including 27,000 Chin eligible voters. But on 5th November, the village authorities, Election Commission and USDP together forced the Chin villagers to cast the advance votes for the USDP to win, therefore there were very few voters on 7th November 2010.

A voter from Chin State who spoke to Burma Election Tracker said: "Even though I voted for Chin Progressive Party, it was not convenient. Many voters experienced the mismatch of voting cards and polling stations, and mismatch of names. Due to those, people had quarrels with polling station officials."

ခ်င္းတုိးတက္ေရးပါတီအားမဲေပးခဲ့ေသာ္လည္း မဲေပးရသည္မွာ အဆင္မေျပာပါ။ မဲကဒ္ျပားမ်ားႏွင့္မဲရံနံပါတ္မ်ားလြဲေခ်ာ္ေနျခင္း ၊အမည္မ်ားလြဲေခ်ာ္ေနျခင္းမ်ား မဲေပးသူအမ်ားစုၾကံဳခဲ့ရျပီး၊ မဲရံုတာ၀န္ရွိသူမ်ားႏွင့္ အေျခအတင္စကားမ်ားေျပာဆုိမႈမ်ား ျဖစ္ခ့ဲၾကရပါသည္။

A voter in Chin State spoke to Burma Election Tracker about his experience of being forced to vote for the USDP and claims there was no voter education provided. He said: "Because I am a government employee, I had to vote for USDP although I did not like them. People said that there were 4 police persons guarding the polling station. The wasn't any election education.

A voter from Chin State spoke to Burma Election Tracker and said: "I'm illiterate and I ticked the symbol of the Lion (USDP) that the staff of the polling station pointed to."

These types of violations have been recurrent during Burma's election.

မိမိစာမတတ္သည့္အတြက္မဲရံုတာ၀န္ရွိသူမ်ားကျခေသၤ့တံဆိပ္(USDP)ကုိအမွန္ျခစ္ခိုင္းသည့္အတုိင္းျခစ္ခဲ့ပါသည္။

A resident of Chin State who spoke to Burma Election Tracker said: "I voted for the Chin National Party (CNP). Rejected votes were used by the USDP. In the polling station, USDP canvassed for votes by offering t-shirts and caps, and saying people would get more benefits if they won."

These types of violations have been pervasive during Burma's elections.

A voter from Chin State who spoke to Burma Election Tracker said: "I voted for Chin National Party (CNP). U Kan Lyan Tan, the CNP candidate, reported to the Election Commission that USDP candidate Naunz Mone forced people to vote for her, but the Commission ignored it. Then the candidates began to quarrel. I'm disappointed because of USDP's inequity."

Dr. Ro Uk, the USDP candidate has won from Matupi township constituency, in Chin state, after promising villagers Kyat 20 lakhs before the election in Burma, local people have alleged.

Lailenpi villagers had demanded Kyat 20 lakhs for casting votes for the USDP candidate last October during campaign. Dr. Ro Uk had promised to give them Kyat 20 lakhs on the spot and he got 800 votes on election day.

A citizen in Chin State spoke to Burma Election Tracker and said, "I voted for the Chin National Party (CNP). The votes of absentees were all going to USDP while I watched it. There's no educational awareness provided for the election."

Throughout Burma, citizens complained about a lack of education and information regarding how to vote in the election. Also, there have been reports of widespread violation of absentee ballots.

ခ်င္းအမ်ိဳးသားပါတီအားမဲေပးခဲ့ပါသည္။မဲေပးရန္ပ်က္ကြက္သူမ်ား၏မဲမ်ားUSDPမဲမ်ားျဖစ္သြားသည္ကုိသတိထားေစာင့္ၾကည့္ရာမွေတြ ့ရွိခဲ့ပါသည္။ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲပညာေပးမႈမ်ားမရွိပါ။