By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE ELECTION Commission today (Feb.12) categorically dismissed a persistent call from students for a recount of all votes in a constituency of Chonburi amidst allegations of rigging and irregularities over Sunday’s election. Election Commission Chair Narong Klanwarin announced that the polling agency had investigated the alleged rigging and irregularities over
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Some referees ‘bought’ to rig votes for rogue contestants
By Thai Newsroom Reporters CERTAIN REFEREES at many voting units had been allegedly bought with money by rogue candidates to surreptitiously manipulate to rig the votes and land them undue victories in Sunday’s election for MPs, according to a partisan source. Those kickback-taking, biased referees who had mingled with others at many voting units,
Read moreRecount of votes in all five constituencies of Supanburi demanded
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A RECOUNT of votes in all five constituencies of Supanburi was today (Feb.10) demanded amidst allegations of electoral rigging and irregularities. The People’s called on the Election Commission to have all five constituencies of the central province recounted after four Bhumjaithai candidates and one Klatham contestant had reportedly swept victories
Read moreSenatorial vote-rigging cases against 229 suspects forwarded
By Thai Newsroom Reporters AN INVESTIGATIVE COMMITTEE of the Election Commission today (July 17) put forward historic cases of vote-buying, bloc-voting allegations over last year’s senatorial elections involving as many as 229 law-breaking suspects and the Bhumjaithai under de facto party boss Newin Chidchob as a whole. The ad hoc committee has concluded its
Read more60 senators could have electoral right retroactively revoked due to vote-rigging scandals
By Thai Newsroom Reporters ABOUT 60 SENATORS could probably be denied their electoral suffrage in retroactive fashion for alleged involvement in last year’s senatorial races flagrantly riddled with electoral rigging, bloc-voting shenanigans, sources said today (May 7). Out of a total of 200 senators, an estimated 60 could probably be handed a red card
Read moreThaksin denies adopting malicious design against pro-Bhumjaithai senators
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI boss Thaksin Shinawatra today (March 14) categorically denied he had adopted any covert design against pro-Bhumjaithai senators, especially including those being currently suspected of involvement in electoral rigging scandals. Thaksin, father of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, said he had never held any grudges against the pro-Bhumjaithai
Read moreOver half of senators allegedly involved in electoral rigging
By Thai Newsroom Reporters AS MANY AS 138 senators would probably be suspected of alleged involvement in rigging, bloc-voting shenanigans during last year’s senatorial elections, a partisan source said today (Feb.18). Of a total of 200 senators, no less than 138 would probably be accused of getting involved in electoral fraud which landed them
Read moreWoman contested senatorial race in Buriram without signing her name: Nipit
By Thai Newsroom Reporters IN WHAT WAS SEEN as a sheer electoral irregularity, a woman farmer had been allegedly hired by a politically-associated wheeler-dealer to contest the senatorial election without signing her name on the application form and been elected at the district and provincial stages in Buriram. Former Democrat MP Nipit Intharasombat today
Read moreElection Commission pressed to put off ratification of all 200 senators-designate
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE ELECTION COMMISSION was today (July 1) pressed to indefinitely delay an official ratification of all 200 senators-designate, scheduled for upcoming Wednesday, otherwise a duty-negligence lawsuit would be filed in court against the polling agency. Kamrob Panyakaeo, an outvoted senatorial contestant, called on the Election Commission to not ratify the
Read moreSenatorial race ‘the century’s most disgusting’: Plodprasop
By Thai Newsroom Reporters FORMER PHEU THAI-ATTACHED deputy prime minister Plodprasop Suraswadi today (June 29) branded a recent senatorial election “the century’s most disgusting.” Plodprasop posted on his Facebook page to remark that as many as half the total 200 senators-designate might probably be prone to electoral rigging and other wrongdoing charges. Plodprasop insisted
Read moreDefeated senatorial contestants call for probe into vote-rigging scams
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A GROUP OF OUTVOTED SENATORIAL contestants today (June 28) filed a complaint over vote-rigging and other electoral wrongdoing allegations, calling on the Election Commission to immediately investigate. The alleged wrongdoings on the part of “puppet” senatorial candidates in Wednesday’s national or final stage of the complicated, triple-tiered election involved the
Read moreAnother Bhumjaithai MP found involved in electoral rigging charges
By Thai Newsroom Reporters ANOTHER BHUMJAITHAI MP has been caught allegedly rigging last year’s election in Buengkan which could possibly lead to the loss of his MP status, a by-election and a ban on the accused from contesting again. The Election Commission today (May 13) resolved to petition the Supreme Court to call the
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