Mandalay (unspecified township)

A citizen in Mandalay Division told Burma Election Tracker, "I voted for USDP because I didn't know which party to vote for. There was no voter education."

ဘယ္ပါတီေပးရမည္မသိသျဖင့္ ျခေသၤ့(USDP)အားေပးလိုက္ပါသည္။ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲပညာေပးမႈမရွိပါ။

A voter from Mandalay Division who spoke to Burma Election Tracker said: "I boycotted the 2010 election and I know very few people voted."

မဲမေပးျခင္းျဖင့္၂၀၁၀ေရြးေကာက္အားသပိတ္ေမွာက္ပါသည္။မဲေပးသူမ်ားနည္းပါးသည္ကုိသိ၇ွိရပါသည္။

A resident of Mandalay Division who spoke to Burma Election Tracker said: "I didn't vote because the military regime always made up their minds and I believe nothing will change."

စစ္အစုိးရမွထင္သလိုစိတ္ၾကိဳက္လုပ္ေနျခင္း၊ေျပာင္လဲလာမည္ဟုမယံုျခင္း၊တုိ ့ေၾကာင့္မဲမေပးပါ။

Citizens inside Burma have reported to Burma Election Tracker that in a village in Mandalay Division, members of the USDP canvassed for votes at the village polling station by offering flags, pamphlets and by asking openly and candidly to vote for their party until noon of election day.

ရြာအတြင္းရွိမဲရံု၌ ၾကံခိုင္ေရး(USDP)ပါတီ၀င္မ်ားသည္မဲလာေပးသူမ်ားအားအလံမ်ားေပးျခင္း၊လက္ကမ္းစာေစာင္မ်ားျဖန္ ့ေ၀ျခင္း၊ပါတီအားမဲေပးရန္ေျဗာင္စည္းရံုးသိမ္းသြင္းျခင္းမ်ားကုိေန ့လည္(၁၂)နာရီထျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ၾကပါသည္။

Inside networks reporting from Burma told Burma Election Tracker that in Mandalay Division, the president of a local Ward Peace and Development Council (also the president of the same village's election commission), called the villagers to his office one day before the election and asked more than 500 people to vote for USDP in front of him.

(------x)အတြင္းရွိ (-----x)ေက်းရြာတြင္ေက်းရြာဥကၠဌလည္းျဖစ္ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲေကာ္မရွင္ဥကၠဌလည္းျဖစ္သူမွေက်းရြာသားမ်ားအားရံုးသုိ ့ေခၚယူကာUSDP ပါတီအတြက္၄င္းေရွ ့ေမွာက္တြင္လူ၅၀၀ေက်ာ္ကုိေထာက္ခံမဲေပးေစခဲ့ပါသည္။

Inside networks operating in Burma have reported to Burma Election Tracker that a President of Ward Peace and Development Council (village authorities) in Mandalay Division spoke from a loudspeaker and told all the villagers to come and vote and that the absentees would be punished with one year imprisonment and fined 100 000 Kyats (nearly 100 $).

An inside network in in Mandalay Division advised Burma Election Tracker that a Ward Chairperson took a 13 year old person to the polling station and forced the child to vote for USDP. At 10:30 am in the morning, the Polling Station Commission announced that all the 3,000 eligible voters had cast their votes already and USDP had a landslide victory. A voter went to the polling station at 3:00 pm in the afternoon to vote and was told that he had already voted. The voter explained that he had not cast a vote yet and would complain to the police. He was finally allowed to cast a vote.

Inside networks reported that uneducated voters at polling stations in the Mandalay division were asking for help on how to vote and that the USDP assisted them by ticking USDP on ballot slip and then directed them to vote.

မႏ ၱေလးတုိင္း ျပည္ၾကီးတံခြန္ျမိဳ႕နယ္ (က) ရပ္ကြက္ တြင္စာမတတ္တဲ့ လူေတြ ကမဲေပးခ်င္လို႕ မဲရံုကို လာေတာ့ ဘာလုပ္ရမယ္မွန္းမသိလို႕ မဲရံုကလူေတြကိုေမးေတာ့ မဲရံုကလူေတြက ၾကံ႕ဖြံ႕ကိုဘဲ အမွန္ျခစ္ေပးၿပီးထည့္ခိုင္းေၾကာင္း ျမိဳ႕ခံတစ္ဦးက ေျပာၾကားခဲ့။

A voter in Mandalay Division spoke to Burma Election Tracker and said, "I was not free to vote. USDP was watching us vote, so I voted for them. Also, I did not have enough knowledge about the election."

Many voters throughout Burma reported USDP candidates violating election laws by campaigning in polling places or intimidating voters by watching them closely while they cast their ballots.

မဲေပးရတာမလြတ္လပ္ပါ၊ USDP မ်ားေစာင့္ၾကည့္ေနသျဖင့့္ USDP အားမဲထည့္လိုက္ပါသည္။ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲအေၾကာင္းလဲ နားမလည္တာပါပါသည္။

A voter spoke to Burma Election Tracker and said: "We boycotted and did't vote because of unfairness."

Throughout Burma, some citizens exercised their right to boycott the election and not vote.

တရားမွ်တမႈမရွိျခင္းေၾကာင့္ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲအားသပိတ္ေမွာက္သျဖင့္မဲသြားမေပးပါ။