State Utility Staff May Be Registered To Vote Twice

The SRP yesterday said it had found that more than 90 employees of state-owned power company Electricite du Cambodge (EdC) were registered to vote in two separate places for Sunday’s commune elections and warned that the ruling CPP may use such government employees to vote twice. At a press conference at party headquarters, SRP lawmaker Yim Sovann said the opposition party was given the employees’ names from a staff member inside the EdC about two weeks ago and had spent the intervening days confirming that they were registered to vote twice. …