Sittwe

According to inside networks, there were about 1,700 eligible voters in Pouk Taw Township constituency 5, Arakan State, but only about 600 of them voted. Most of them boycotted the election. Although there was not advance voting, there were about 40 advance votes when votes are counted. There were many people in Kyoung Sout village who could not vote, as they were not in voters list. The village head of A’ Lal Kyun ran away with ballot boxes, as so many people voted for RNDP instead of USDP.

Pauk Taw: The Pauktaw Township chairman, Khin Maung Lwin, has summoned all officials with authority related to the recent voting in the township after the USDP was widely defeated by the RNDP, said a member of a village election commission on the condition of anonymity.

He said, "The township chairman summoned the village chairmen, polling station officers, and village election commissioners from several villages to his office in Pauktaw after the USDP was defeated by the RNDP. He was angry because the RNDP defeated the USDP in his township."

Officials of the irrigation department in Pauk Taw Township destroyed an embankment that was constructed to prevent salt water from entering paddy fields after the villagers voted for the Rakhine National Development Party in the recent election, said a town elder and villagers.

The village is Kan Chaung, 30 miles from downtown Pauk Taw, and it has over 200 households.

Nobody Shows Up in Cyclone-hit Myebon

MYEBON, Arakan State—Residents of cyclone-affected Myebon Township in Arakan State said nobody will go to the polling station on Sunday because the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) and local authorities have already collected advanced votes for the USDP.
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မုန္ဒိုင္းဒဏ္က်ေရာက္ေနေသာ ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္၊ ေျမပံုျမိဳ႕နယ္တြင္ ၾကံ့ဖြံ႕ပါတီႏွင့္ ေဒသခံအာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက ၾကိဳတင္မဲမ်ား ေကာက္ယူထားျပီးျဖစ္ေသာေၾကာင့္ တနဂၤေႏြေန႕တြင္ မဲရံုမ်ားသို႕ မဲသြားေပးမည္သူမရွိ ျဖစ္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း ေဒသခံမ်ားကေျပာသည္။

A politician from Sittwe, Arakan State, revealed that even though the Union Election Commission
officially restricted the use of religious buildings for election campaigns, USDP had already violated these
restrictions.

Burma’s supreme election authority is ignoring complaints about a pro-junta party that continues to campaign beyond the set deadline, an opposition party has said.

A candidate for the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), which is led by Burmese Prime Minister Thein Sein, was allegedly seen canvassing in several wards in Arakan state capital Sittwe in recent days.

The opposition Rakhine Nationalities Development Party (RNDP) said it had filed a complaint to the Election Commission (EC), which was hand-picked by the junta, who dismissed the claims.