"The Criminal Court read out the Appeal Court’s verdict on a malfeasance lawsuit against former Election Commissioners Veerachai Naewboonnien, Prinya Nakchudtree and former EC chairman Wasana Permlarp.
They were all sentenced to 4 years behind bars without suspension and stripped of their voting rights for the next 10 years.
The malfeasance suit was filed by deputy leader of the Democrat party Thavorn Senniam who claimed that the EC had arranged the April 23 repeat vote in constituencies where lone candidates could not overcome the rule requiring a minimum of 20 per cent of total votes to declare victory -- without a royal decree to endorse the repeat vote.
He also accused the EC members of allowing some lone candidates who failed the 20 per cent rule to switch and register in other constituencies for the April 23 votes."
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Former Election Commission members jailed for 4 years
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