Eligible Thai voters living abroad can cast their votes between April 25 – May 5 ahead of the May 14 election, with the actual date they can vote to be fixed by the Thai embassy and consulate in each country, Election Commission (EC) secretary-general Sawaeng Boonmee said on Monday.
Mr Sawaeng said the EC had been informed by the Foreign Ministry that there might be some problems with the overseas voting in Sudan, a country in northeast Africa, where a civil war is going on.
With cooperation between the EC, Thailand Post, the Foreign Ministry’s Department of Consular Affairs, Airports of Thailand and Thai Airways International, the overseas ballot papers will be delivered in diplomatic pouches or by embassy officials who will hand over them directly to the EC by May 9. They will then be forwarded separately to the 400 constituencies, depending on where each voter…
