Fraud

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

A citizen in Pegu Division who spoke to Burma Election Tracker described a personal experience with USDP's abuse of advance votes and overheard stories of other violations.

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.

A citizen in Pegu Division who spoke to Burma Election Tracker described the authorities tight control over a stage managed election process tilted in favor of USDP.

A voter in Arakan State reported: "We employees were casting votes in the morning during office time. Because we had to cast vote in the presence of senior officers, we could not choose to vote the parties we like. We voted for the USDP as told by senior officers. Each employee were brought three envelopes with one ballot slip in each. On each slip, they had to tick on the boxes next to USDP logo. Envelopes with slips in them were then returned to TPDC chairperson without being sealed. Employees were threatened that they would be fired if did not vote for USDP."

A citizen in Pegu Division reported: "In our village, people were issued USDP membership cards. Residents who have no ID were provided these for free. It was like an ID card application process. People had to fill forms and sign them. 10 out of 10 people in a family had to fill in the forms. There are 5 people in my family. I did not vote but 4 others voted. They did not need to use their fingerprints. I did not hear about advance voting. At least one person in a household had to apply for ID. Many people in our village had no interest in the election."

A citizen in Mon State reported: "the entire village assembled and every villager was compelled to vote. There were fairly high number of voters. Police and soldiers involved in directing villagers to vote and everyone participated in voting and voted for lion party (USDP) as they were afraid. I don't think civilians like the election. I don't like it either. I don't expect anything out of the election."

A citizen from Sagaing Division told Burma Election Tracker, "I had to cast advance vote for USDP."

USDP အားၾကိဳတင္မဲထည့္ေပးရပါသည္။

Advance votes were collected from elderly people following the order of WPDC and authorities cast the vote for USDP. Locals were told that they would be deadly punished if they didn't vote for the USDP. While collecting advance votes, elderly people were pressured by the force of officers to vote for USDP. When complaints about such cases were submitted to Election Commission, the WPDC threatened people that they would kill people who would file such complaints again.