The Election Commission (EC) has established a Cyber Threat Surveillance and Response Operations Centre to make sure transparency in elections, according to EC Secretary-general Sawaeng Boonmee. This development is available in partnership with the National Cyber Security Agency, Office of the Personal Data Protection Commission, Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau, the Bureau of Registration Administration, and National Telecom Public Co Ltd.
Sawaeng, aged 58, acknowledged the errors in the superior voting course of that took place final Sunday and guaranteed that measures are in place to forestall such mistakes from occurring on Election Day. “We will maintain all ballots secure, and there might be no ballot rigging,” Sawaeng said.
In response to a query from a Pheu Thai candidate concerning election observers, Sawaeng talked about that the EC encourages collaboration from all sectors in observing the election. However, if events wish to send their very own observers, they have to notify the EC within 15 days of the poll under Section 55 of the Organic Act on the Election of Members of the House of Representatives. These observers may even be responsible for their own bills.
Seats for election observers shall be reserved at polling stations. Should parties fail to inform the EC upfront, their observers will be located outdoors the polling stations. Marked down must be famous that the EC previously aided in overlaying such expenses beneath rules established by the 1998 Organic Act on Political Parties, however this regulation was nullified beneath the 2007 structure.
Directors in every province have been instructed by the EC to record occasions at polling stations from the commencement of voting at 8am till the ultimate result’s announced. The EC anticipates unofficial outcomes to be obtainable by round 11pm..