Chaos election! Election bosses dismiss fears over 300K+ bad ballots

Days after claiming it had rectified a problem with about 100 mismarked ballots and guaranteeing it wouldn’t happen again, the Election Commission is again telling people to believe it has fixed a much larger problem less than 48 hours before polls open.

In addition to the 100 erroneous ballots, the postal service brought to light today that it is sitting on more than 300,000 ballots that it cannot read because election workers wrote illegible voter information on them. In response, the commission late Friday insisted that all of the affected ballots cast in early voting last week have been fixed and sent on their way.

Election chief Saewang Boonmee disputed the nature of the problem, chalking it up to some bad data entry, and played down the scope, insisting the illegible ballots counted fewer than 300,000.

About two million people voted this past Sunday, many…