Millions of Myanmar citizens abroad miss chance to vote
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Yangon (dpa) - Most of the more than 2 million Myanmar citizens living abroad have failed to register for postal voting in the November polls, an official said Wednesday.
Only about 18,000 of the 2,021,910 people registered as living abroad in the November 2014 census had sent their applications in before the deadline, said Tin Aye, chairman of the Union Election Commission.
"Without cooperation from them, what else we can do for them?" he said.
The commission also criticised parties for declining to help correct alleged inaccuracies in the wider voting list.
