EU Draft Memo Defended Voter List Margin of Error

Audits of the voter list which claimed that up to 1 million people could lose their right to vote in the July 28 national election were attributed to an “unavoidable margin of error” due to many citizens not having national identity cards or a permanent address, the European Union (E.U.) opined in a draft memo obtained Monday. The draft memo, which was compiled to brief E.U. experts currently in the country to monitor the pre-and post-election climate, also stated that the voter list audits—conducted by the Washington-based National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (Comfrel)—were misleading in their assessment of the quality of the voter list’s accuracy. … In a 58-page audit released in early April, Comfrel found that about 1.25 million voters would likely lose their right to vote on July 28 because 13.5 percent of registered voters could not find their names on the voter list. In another report released the month before, the NDI found that the names of more than 9 percent of past voters had been unfairly removed from the voter list and that the list also contained the names of people who do not exist. …

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