Statement on False findings of the voter list by the Myanmar Military [A Thread]

Military Info Team has recently inspected the voter list for 2020 Myanmar General Election and stated that there are over 10 million irregularities in voter list.

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Military Info Team has recently inspected the voter list for 2020 Myanmar General Election and stated that there are over 10 million (10,482,116) irregularities in voter list. However, The Insights team would like to elaborate on the reasons why this statement is incorrect.

1/ Actual Population and Voter Population

As of the latest voter list from UEC, there are 3.8 million people who are over 18 years old and eligible for voting. As of the 2019 Interim Population Census, the total population over 18 years old is 34.4 million.

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2/ There is only a slight difference of around 400,000 between these two numbers. As to the reason for such difference, it is due to the lack of Myanmar Population from foreign countries as well as the nature of the Interim Population Census.

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3/ Thus, the statistics on the interim census will not fully cover the whole population of the country.

Therefore, Military Info Team's statement for 10 million irregularities in the voter list is absolutely unreasonable and incorrect.

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4/ The Inspected Voter List

UEC has announced the first batch of voter lists within July and August 2020. Citizens had the access to these voter lists and were able to correct irregularities. After these corrections, UEC has announced the second batch of voter lists in October.

5/ The citizens also had the chance to correct the irregularities within these voter lists. After the deliberate corrections through these two batches, the updated comprehensive voter list was created in order to utilize for the November 8 Election.

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6/ Military Info Team only had the chance to inspect the second batch of voter lists, which is a work in progress and contains loads of irregularities. The findings on the voter list irregularities through this second batch of lists are baseless findings that would amount to nth.

7/ Based on the two facts stated above, we would like to point out that the Tatmadaw Info Team's statement on the finding of over 10 million irregularities in the voter list is not correct. Accordingly, the unfair conduct based on this statement is beyond justice and unlawful.

We also want to encourage our fellow data science enthusiasts to join with your expertise by carefully wading through, analyzing the findings of the Military Info team.

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We, The Insights, also require more sources of vibrant data (esp data on the polling stations) in order to establish comprehensive proof for this incorrect statement. We would like to request you to support us in any way you can in order to make this happen.

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