CHON BURI: Election Commission chairman Itthiporn Boonprakong and his entourage made a trip to this eastern province on Sunday morning to inspect advance voting there.
The team first paid a visit to the welfare centre for the elderly in tambon Bang Lamung where a polling station is set up for 126 people at the centre to vote. Mr Itthiporn was greeted on arrival by Chon Buri governor Pakarathorn Thienchai and Bang Lamung district chief Amnart Charoensri.
Ketsuda Intaratham, 78, said she was glad a polling station was set up for the first time at the centre, enabling her and other elderly residents to vote at the centre without having to travel to a polling station elsewhere and take several hours to exercise their right to vote.
Mr Itthiporn and his entourage later went to Phra Mahathai Technology College in Pattaya, Bang Lamung district, where a polling station was set up especially for 158 students and disabled persons who registered for advance voting.
They then proceeded with to the Bang Lamung district office where 52 polling stations were set up for 52,126 advance voters from all over the country. The number of early voters in Bang Lamung is the second highest in the country after Bangkok's Bang Kapi district, where 61,401 people registered to vote.
A large number of police and volunteers were mobilised to manage the flow of traffic.
