Partyforumseasia: Before the election there was already confusion about the voters lists. Some were too short, many voters were missing, some others were too long, with possible phantom voters. There were many suspicions that the ruling CPP would use the normal tricks to manipulate the outcome of the election which it could not afford to lose. The official observer teams, not all from very democratic countries, were as ineffective as they normally are. But this time a range of civil society initiatives tried to uncover irregularities. In part 2 of his observations, Max Grömping from The Electoral Integrity Project supplies us with a very interesting assessment how civic election observation works and where its limitations are.

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