Thailand’s Central Administrative Court has dismissed a complaint over out-of-district referendum registration, ruling the Election Commission of Thailand acted lawfully and provided three registration channels, as the commission issued a separate statement encouraging polling officials ahead of the February 8 election and referendum.

Bangkok’s city hall says advance voting on February 1 ran smoothly across 50 polling sites, with turnout at 87.60% for out-of-constituency voters and 96.47% for in-constituency voters ahead of the February 8 election.