Posted on January 6, 2014 by letters2pppapers As noted in two previous articles, the report of the Electoral Reform Alliance released in early December is intended to discredit Cambodia’s 28 July general election. The first article pointed out that the ERA is dominated and funded mainly by a United States government agency with a thoroughly anti-democratic record. The second debunked the report’s claim that there was something deliberately unfair in the assignment of seats to the provinces. This article will look at the ERA’s claim that there was something rigged or improper in the way that the proportional representation system operated. The report claims: “Proportional representation implies that the number of seats allocated to a party should be proportional to the number of votes that party has received. Yet the share of seats for the CPP following the 2013 elections is higher than the party’s share of the popular vote, mostly due to the single-member const...
