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BANGKOK, March 18 – Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday accepted \u200bfor consideration a petition challenging the legality \u200cof election ballots used in last month’s polls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Election Commission has been given 15 days to \u200bprovide clarification, the court said in \u200ba statement. It did not specify any \u2060other orders, meaning Thursday’s planned vote by \u200bthe new parliament on a prime minister would \u200bgo ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The complaints\u00a0alleged<\/a>\u00a0that barcodes and QR codes on the ballots could potentially be used to identify \u200bwhich candidate and party a voter had \u200bchosen, undermining the secrecy of the ballot, according to \u200cthe \u2060Office of the Ombudsman, which filed the petition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The commission has said the barcodes were included for security purposes and that identifying a \u200bvoter would \u200brequire access \u2060to the upper half of the ballots, which had been securely \u200bstored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul’s<\/a> Bhumjaithai Party had \u200ba decisive \u2060win<\/a> in February’s election and he plans to form a coalition government that would control \u2060290 \u200bof the 499 seats \u200bcurrently occupied in the new parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Reuters) BANGKOK, March 18 – Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday accepted \u200bfor consideration a petition challenging the legality \u200cof election ballots used in last month’s polls. The Election Commission has been given 15 days to \u200bprovide clarification, the court said in \u200ba statement. It did not specify any \u2060other orders, meaning Thursday’s planned vote by \u200bthe new parliament on a prime minister would \u200bgo ahead. The complaints\u00a0alleged\u00a0that barcodes and QR codes on the ballots could potentially be used to identify \u200bwhich candidate and party a voter had \u200bchosen, undermining the secrecy of the ballot, according to \u200cthe \u2060Office of the… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55531,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55529\/revisions\/55531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}