The People’s Alliance for Credible Elections (PACE) will recruit about 2,000 volunteers as election observers to operate at polling booths across the country in States and Regions in the forthcoming 2020 general elections.

The volunteers will focus their work on the correctness of electoral rolls, observing electoral fraud and other malpractices and vote counting at these polling stations. They will observe the elections throughout the entire polling date.

PACE Yangon Region coordinator Thway Thant Aung said that they would compile all data and facts collected from their observers and publish a report on the whole nation’s election process.

“Primarily we shall observe the vote counting. And we will observe if there is any electoral fraud or vote rigging. If we find such electoral malpractices and irregularities, we shall not say specific polling stations with a precise location. We shall say only include the percentage of such fraud and malpractices in the whole election in our report. The report will show only the percentage,” PACE Yangon Region Coordinator Thway Thant Aung said.

The announcement issued by PACE said that the applicants for election volunteer observers must have attained the age of 18, must be apolitical persons and be impartial. They must send their applications on or before October 5 and they will be assigned at polling stations near to their residences.