After 2010 fraud, advance vote concerns remain in Kayah State
In 2010, shortly before the 7 November election, U Tun Shwe, a local administrator and Union Solidarity and Development Party official from Chigwe village, Bawlakhe township, was given an unusual task: Place a tick on blank ballot forms next to the USDP logo.
The votes were later used to stuff ballot boxes, he told The Myanmar Times in Bawhlakhe earlier this week – a claim backed up to some extent by the official results, which show 77 percent of the 5261 votes received were advance votes. Nearly all went to the USDP candidate.
