Sagaing Division

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

USDP အားၾကိဳတင္မဲထည့္ေပးရပါသည္။

A voter from Sagaing Division who spoke to Burma Election Tracker said: "They intentionally left out our whole family from the voting list."

"က်ေနာ္တို ့တအိပ္လံုးအားမဲေပးခြင့္ခ်န္လွပ္ထားခဲ့ျပီးမဲေပးခြင့္မရေအာင္တမင္လုပ္သြားခဲ့ပါသည္။
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A voter from Sagaing Division who spoke to Burma Election Tracker said: "I voted for the CNPP. There was no discipline or organization in voting. About one week before the election, we were told to come for education on voting, but when we went, there were no quarter PDC leaders or Election Commission leaders."

ခ်င္းအမ်ိဳးသားပါတီအားမဲေပးခဲ့ပါသည္။မဲေပးရာတြင္စည္းကမ္းမရွိသည္ကုိသိရပါသည္။မဲေပးရက္အတုိင္ခင္တပါတ္အလိုတြင္မဲပညေပးျပဳလုပ္ရန္အတြက္လာၾကရန္ေမာင္းခတ္ေၾကညာခဲ့ေသာ္လည္းျပည္မ်ားမွသြားေရာက္ၾကေသာအခါရပ္ကြက္လူၾကီးမ်ား၊ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲေကာ္မရွင္လူၾကီးမ်ားမရွိၾကပါ။

A voter from Sagaing Division who spoke to Burma Election Tracker said: "I voted for the National Unity Party (NUP). The USDP, particularly the Deputy Foreign Minister Maung Myint (Hluttaw Candidate) offered 20,000 kyats loans to each farmer in villages before the election. He spent millions of kyat as inducement to vote for the USDP."

This type of violation, vote buying, has been pervasive during Burma's election.

A voter from Sagaing Division who spoke to Burma Election Tracker said: "As a government employee, I had to vote for the USDP."

Government employees being forced to vote for the USDP has been a recurring violation during Burma's election.

အစုိးရ၀န္ထမ္းျဖစ္သျဖင့္မထည့္မေနရ ျခေသၤ့(USDP)အားထည့္ရပါသည္။

A voter from Sagaing Division who spoke to Burma Election Tracker said: "Even though I voted for Chin National Progressive Party, the USDP forcefully collected many advanced votes. There were many USDP members and police personnel at the polling stations."

“ခ်င္းအမ်ိဳးသားတုိးတက္ေရးပါတီ ကုိေပးခဲ့ေပမယ့္ USDP မွၾကိဳတင္မဲေတြဖိအားေပးေကာက္ခံသြားတာေတြ ရွိေနပါတယ္။ မဲရံုေတြမွာ USDPအဖြဲ ့ေတြနဲ ့ရဲေတြအမ်ားၾကီးခ်ထားပါသည္။” ဟုစစ္ကိုင္တိုင္ရွိ မဲေပးသူတစ္ဦးက Burma Election Tracker သို႕ေျပာသည္။

A voter in Sagaing Division who spoke to Burma Election Tracker said: "I had to vote for the USDP for I was worried about many things. I think the international community will find out all about SPDC's unfairness and fraud. In my region, many people were not interested in the elections, and didn't know anything about the elections. There was no electoral education and people who knew about elections were afraid of getting into trouble. I don't think the elections will bring any betterment to people. I see the elections are designed for the military regime."

4000 people who were eligible to vote in Chin ethnic Hluttaw (Congress) were removed from the voting list, according to a resident.

စစ္ကိုင္းတိုင္း၊ တမူးၿမိဳ႕နယ္မဲ ဆႏၵနယ္၊ ခ်င္းတို္င္းရင္းသား လႊတ္ေတာ္တြင္ မဲေပးႏုိင္သူ ၄၀၀၀ ခန္႕ ကုိ မဲစာရင္းတြင္ မထည့္ေၾကာင္း ေျပာၾကသည္။

Source: Khonumthung

There have been widespread reports that government employees were forced to vote for the USDP. A government employee in Sagaing told Burma Election Tracker: "Because I am post-office staff, I had to vote for the USDP."
စာတုိက္၀န္းထမ္းျဖစ္လို ့ USDP အားေပးလိုက္ရပါသည္။

A resident of the Sagaing Division who spoke to Burma Election Tracker said: "I voted. There was no verify and match ID cards and voters list. Those without ID cards were allowed to cast votes as well."

This report exemplifies how the voting process is not systematic and very open to manipulation. The lack of verification of identification to vote ensures that there is not a comprehensive way of ensuring that there will not be individuals voting twice, voting if they are not eligible, or someone submitting a fraudulent vote on their behalf.