As part of the preparation for 2020 Multi-party Democracy General Election, the former UEC set 2019 as voter list compilation year. The project on the collection of population list and compilation of basic voter list was drafted jointly by Ministry of Union Government Office, Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population and was implemented starting from third week of June 2019. When the data was collected for the Basic Voter List, ward/village-tract administrators led the Population List data collection groups as chairpersons. In some places, NLD campaign teams presented together with NLD appointed ward/village-tract administrators during data collection for the voter list. It was not verified whether the people actually lived there or not, if they have Citizenship Scrutiny Cards or not, whether they meet eligible criteria in line with respective Hluttaw Election Laws, and that is why there was mass inclusion of people who do not have any Citizenship Scrutiny Cards, and people who have same the Citizenship Scrutiny Cards were included twice or more than three times. [1]

 Moreover, giving reasons for the errors from First Voter List Display, there were forcible inclusion of voters by NLD party campaign teams at various levels until the Election Day and the local election sub commissions could not verify and identify these people which made the voter list more duplicate and bloated.

 Although Section 15 (c) of Chapter 6 of the relevant Hluttaw Election Law states that “Whoever has the right to vote in any constituency shall not be included in the voting roll of any constituency other than that of the constituency concerned at the same time”, there were measures which were not in compliance with laws during voter list data collection. According to Section 19 (b) of the relevant Hluttaw Election Law, “the names not eligible are included in the voting roll, delete such names from the voting roll”, but the names were not deleted in the voter list. [2]

 It was found that the former UEC did not follow respective Hluttaw Election Laws and rules to compile the voter list, and issued instructions randomly, and it created duplication and errors in the voter list. It was also determined that the people who couldn’t be verified if they had voter eligibility or not, were intentionally added into voter list by forming voter list support groups led by respective former State/Region Chief Ministers.