UEC rejects voter fraud accusations

29 January 2021
UEC rejects voter fraud accusations
People cast their ballots during early voting at a polling station in Yangon, Myanmar, 29 October 2020. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA

The Union Election Commission has rejected allegations by the country's military of voter fraud in last year's election and said there were no errors big enough to impact the credibility of the vote, todayonline.com reported.
 
The National League for Democracy (NLD) won the Nov. 8 election in a landslide, taking 83% of available seats. The military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party won just 33 of the 476 available seats.

"In this election, weaknesses and errors in voter lists cannot cause voting fraud," the commission said in a six-page statement on its Facebook page, adding voting was conducted transparently before election observers.