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Saturday 30 January 2016

NEC chief calls for registration tech help

ppp Fri, 29 January 2016

Lay Samean

The president of the National Election Committee yesterday appealed for tech-savvy students and civil servants to help the body organise new digital voter lists after a trial of the system last year threw up an array of technical challenges.

NEC head Sik Bun Hok made the call-to-arms during a seminar in Phnom Penh to organise regulations and procedures for voter registration ahead of the local and national elections in 2017 and 2018, respectively.

Among the event’s 185 attendees were NEC officials, representatives of the UN, NGOs, diplomats and election experts from Japan and the European Union, who praised the NEC’s progress but underscored the need for transparent and accessible voter lists to consolidate confidence in the system.

Addressing the crowd, Bun Hok said the NEC “desperately” needed computer-literate students and civil servants to help register voters, adding an announcement would be made soon on the recruitment drive, which would prioritise women and disabled applicants.

“Working in voter registration is an opportunity to contribute to serving the country and promoting democracy,” he said.

A two-week trial of the digital registration system in November encountered several technical problems, including the poor battery life of equipment, patchy internet and fingerprint scans and head shots that were unclear, which meant each person took about 10 minutes to process.

Many voters also did not have sufficient ID to register.

EU and Japanese experts are aiding the NEC’s work. The Japanese team has submitted 100 points of feedback, though specifics were not discussed.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The chief of NEC, Sik bun hok is crying baby?. Can't do the job eh?. If you can't do the job vested in you,get out and let someone else do it, you brick!!!!!.
You are a very big disappointment to will of Khmer people. How could you justify of appointing ah tep nytha the top job, when at the last election was rigged and fraudulent under his control? Election experience my ass. You are a leech old guard of commy turned dictator don't know shit ,except rack up corruption big time.
If you are so smart you say you are, get up your fucking ass and show to the khmer that you can do your job independently.