REPORT ON VOTER REGISTER AUDIT

Report on Voter Registration Audit (VRA) in Cambodia September 2007 COMFRELREPORT ON VOTER REGISTRATION AUDIT IN CAMBODIA Table of Contents I. FORWARD II. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY III. BACKGROUND - History of VRA in Cambodia - Objective - Methodology IV. PROGRAM ACTIVITIES - Planning - Public Awareness on VRA - The Sample - Recruitment of Observers - Development of Training Materials - Trainings - Deployment - Data transmission, Data Entry, Data Cleaning and Data Analysis V. VRA VI. RECOMMENDATIONS - For the NEC - For the Government - For the Political Parties, Civil Society, Media and the International Community VII. PRESENTATION OF FINDINGS - Presentation to the NEC and Political Parties - Press Conference - VIII. LESSONS LEARNED - Internal - External IX. LIST 2I. FORWARD For most citizens, voter registration is yet one extra chore in the hustle and bustle of daily life. The trek to the Commune Council office to peer at a list on a wall or fill out a form is a mundane and bureaucratic exercise that is repeated annually by millions of Cambodians every September. Yet no component of an election is as important or essential to guaranteeing the rights of voters to cast their ballots and ensuring the fairness of the poll as the voter registration list. If citizenship springs from the theory of civic rights, then the voter registration list is the reality of enacting those rights. The voters list is ...