Pro-democracy groups from Myanmar and international organizations launched a “Sham Election Tracker,” to monitor and document regime election-related human rights violations at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand (FCCT) in Bangkok on Dec. 10.
“People of Myanmar do not accept the regime’s elections. That’s why we will expose all information about the elections,” Pai, a member of the Sham Election Tracker Working Group established in October, said at the launch event.
Myanmar human rights activist Khin Ohmar, Special Advisory Committee for Myanmar (SAC-M) founding member Yanghee Lee, and Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL) analyst Amael Vier, spoke at the FCCT launch of the “Sham Election Tracker.”
It aims to be a tool that combines real-time data and visualization of the regime’s 2025-26 elections, which are scheduled to begin on Dec. 28 and continue into January 2026, and expose human rights violations committed by the regime during the electoral campaign period.
The Union Election Commission (UEC) announced in September that polls will be held in 274 of Myanmar’s total 330 townships. The elections will not take place in 56 townships. Also excluded from voting will be residents living in 161 wards and 2,770 village tracts, according to the UEC. Find out more at shamelectiontracker.com
