Red-shirts volunteers will monitor Bangkok governor elections

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Red-shirts to monitor governor poll

Published: 11 Jan 2013 at 16.14
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The United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) will set up a team of red-shirts to monitor the Bangkok governor election scheduled for early March, to ensure a fair and transparent poll.

Speaking at a press conference at Imperial Lat Phrao Shopping Centre on Friday, UDD chairwoman Tida Tawornseth said the group would be set up soon.

Members of the group would be responsible for monitoring the election to prevent any possible fraud, just as the UDD had successfully achieved in the July 2011 general election, she said.

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bikeme
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Discussion 12 : 11 Jan 2013 at 19.1412
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D7 Genii - IMPARTIAL watch groups is fine, watch groups aligned with a particular party is out of the question (and in most mature democracies illegal).
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Discussion 11 : 11 Jan 2013 at 19.1011
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And who will monitor the red-shirts on that day? The police – like in 2010 when they just looked and did nothing?
Now is still time for the courts to make sure one of the bail condition from all these alleged criminals is that they don’t assemble anywhere near a polling station. But again there is no one who will enforce that.
Democrazy the Thai way
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Discussion 10 : 11 Jan 2013 at 18.4810
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@D7: Watch groups need to be politically impartial and above reproach or even suspicion. The UDD meets none of those criteria. They are partisan and aligned with one party contesting the election. They also have a history of violence. If the UDD is concerned about whether the election will be fair, then they should request ANFREL - the Asian Network for Free Elections - a respected monitoring group with a long and successful track record to monitor the polls. Of course ANFREL would also document Phue Thai cheating, which is why the Reds haven't asked for its help.
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Discussion 9 : 11 Jan 2013 at 17.519
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What authority those violent people have to monitor elections...has the EC given them authorisation???
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Discussion 8 : 11 Jan 2013 at 17.498
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Is that a tactic of the fugitive convicted criminal to try to win Bangkok election?..
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Discussion 7 : 11 Jan 2013 at 17.497
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Watch groups should be allowed in every election to ensure fairness according to the law.
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Discussion 6 : 11 Jan 2013 at 17.476
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Like the right to a secret ballot never happened...
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bikeme
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Discussion 5 : 11 Jan 2013 at 17.355
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I am sorry but assigning political activists to "monitor" polling stations will not insure a fair election. It is simply intimidation and no more democratic than standing there giving out 1000 Baht notes. If the PTP allow such actions, than it will prove beyond a shadow of a doubt, that they are not interested in democracy but planning to impose a one party dictatorship.
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Discussion 4 : 11 Jan 2013 at 17.284
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Totally unacceptable.

This group has no authority at all. It is not elected. It is not monitored. It has no checks and balances. It has no accountability. And it has a propensity for violence and intimidation.
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Discussion 3 : 11 Jan 2013 at 17.263
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10,000 sounds like an awful lot, if there are 1,000 polling stations that's 10 to monitor each, sounds more like a mob to me, wonder what sort of monitoring needs such a crowd. Are there even 10,000 Red shirts members in Bangkok?
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