Majority have doubts over clean referendum vote: poll
MOST people doubt that the August 7 referendum on the constitution draft will be free of fraud, a survey has found.
More than 52 per cent of respondents said they were not certain that the vote would be free of fraud, although they did not support the red shirts forming anti-fraud monitoring centres for the national vote.
Of the 1,233 people surveyed, 35 per cent said they believed there would be fraud in the referendum.
Only 12.6 per cent of the respondents said they were convinced there would be no fraud, citing in the junta’s rigour and control over the situation.
More than three-quarters, or 76.6 per cent of the 1,233 respondents, said monitoring for possible fraud should be done by relevant state authorities, according to results of the opinion poll released Saturday.
The majority of those surveyed said they felt it was illegal and unfeasible for the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) to set up its own monitoring centre.
The survey was conducted by Suan Dusit University from June 13 to 17. It followed controversy stirred up by the UDD’s formation of a centre to look out for fraud in the referendum, with branches in the provinces.
