ECT apologizes to people who cannot register to exercise their right to vote in advance. Because a lot of people use it, causing the system to crash, waiting for the Interior Registry to fix it and consider whether to extend the time or not.
Mr. Sawaeng Boonmee, secretary general of the Election Commission of Thailand (ECT), spoke about the case of people registering for the right to vote in advance yesterday (April 9), which was the last day until the system crashed that he had to apologize to the people as well. such The reason why the system crashed was because many people entered the register during 9:00 p.m., which the registry office The interior ministry clarified that the capacity of the system can handle 4,000 individual registrations per second.
“At present, the registry office Trying to fix this morning (April 10) coordinated whether or not it was possible for people who had failed to register. because the system has a problem as an applicant for the right to vote in advance By contacting the person requesting the exercise of rights in order to confirm where the rights will be exercised.” Secretary-General of the ECT. say
As for whether it would be possible to extend the registration period for voting in advance, Mr. Sawang said he could not answer. Ask the registry office to consider solving the problem before whether it can facilitate the people to any extent. However, the number of early voters now is similar to 2019, at over 2 million, indicating that this group is not comfortable getting to vote on Election Day. Secretary-General of the Election Commission said
As for elections outside the Kingdom, Mr. Sawang said the Election Commission coordinated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Airport Authority of Thailand Department of Consular Affairs which must sympathize with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and applicants for voting rights outside the Kingdom because management is quite difficult People have to spend quite a lot of time to exercise their rights. As for the matter of bringing the card back to Thailand We have rehearsed with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. which Thai embassies in some countries are responsible for many countries But from the lessons we have from the previous elections thought that there would be no incident of bringing ballot papers outside the Kingdom to be counted in time again Now the Ministry of Foreign Affairs finds a way. so that the ballots can be counted back together on the election day for every ballot. 80.
Source: Thai News Agency