Chonburi: Pachari led a team of Thai Sang Thai candidates in Chonburi to inspect election ballot storage locations and urged the Election Commission to recount votes after discovering suspicious activity including a power outage in the industrial city and ballot papers found in trash cans. She emphasized the need for transparency to protect the legitimate votes of the people.
According to Thai News Agency, Mr. Patchari Nitchasiripatch, a candidate for Member of Parliament on the party-list of the Thai Sang Thai Party, along with the party's candidate for Constituency 1, Chonburi, visited the ballot box storage site in Constituency 1, Chonburi, to demonstrate their support for the people's demand for a recount. Mr. Patchari noted irregularities in the power outage during the vote counting process, which he considered extremely rare in an industrial zone with a highly stable electricity system. He also observed ballots being discarded in trash cans, raising public suspicions of a lack of transparency in the vote counting process.
The Thai Sang Thai Party affirms that, although the initial results may not show them as the winner in that constituency, as candidates with a direct stake, their purpose in campaigning is to protect every vote given by the people-votes that are legitimate and not obtained through vote buying. Therefore, the party is acting as a representative to urge the Election Commission to expedite the investigation and conduct a recount to clarify the situation and alleviate the concerns of the people in the area, as well as to prove the transparency of the election process according to democratic principles.
During this site visit, Mr. Patchari and his team inspected ballot box storage locations and gathered evidence of irregularities to support legal proceedings. He emphasized that maintaining the accuracy of even a single vote is crucial to the trust of the entire nation. Therefore, the Election Commission must provide clarity in answering questions regarding discarded ballots and mismanagement, to prevent the Chonburi incident from becoming a precedent for flawed election management in Thailand.