Posted on January 19, 2014 by letters2pppapers Several of the NGOs that formed the Electoral Reform Alliance spent a large part of the first half of last year claiming that the process and result of registering voters are defective and that this disadvantages the opposition. So it is not surprising that this is a major theme in the ERA report released in early December. A problem of credibility arises because these claims are wildly different from each other. The 30 October Cambodia Daily carried an interview with Laura Thornton, the Cambodia country director of the National Democratic Institute, a pretend NGO (it is funded almost entirely by the US government) that has a record of supporting conservative forces without regard for their attitude to democracy. The NDI appears as the directing force of the ERA. The purpose of the interview was to publicise a survey Thornton said had been conducted by the Center for Advanced Studies.* According to Thornton, the survey fo...