New Delhi (Mizzima) – National League for Democracy leaders say the party led by Aung San Suu Kyi has completed a draft report on the various incidents of junta electoral fraud in the run-up to and during the national elections early last month.

The report was based on detailed accounts from electoral candidates across the country, NLD member Kyi Win, who was involved in compiling the draft, said.

“It presents a critical review of the junta’s election and comprises nearly 20 pages. We have completed the draft but senior members will modify it,” Kyi Win said.

The draft contains chapters such as “The Emergence of the Election”, “The Electoral Laws”, “The Constitution”, and “Electoral Fraud at Polling Stations”.

Documented were the authorities’ forced collections of advance votes for the junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) and further accounts of the reportedly abundant evidence regarding the junta’s electoral fraud.

“Most USDP candidates won with the help of advance votes. For instance, at first, independent candidate Dr. Saw Naing defeated the USDP candidate in South Okkalapa Township, and on November 7, the Township Election Commission told him to sign the form declaring that he was the winner. But on November 9, the state-run radio announced that the USDP candidate had defeated him … The draft report also contains a brief account of the events by Dr. Saw Naing,” Suu Kyi lawyer Kyi Win, an NLD central executive committee member, said.

The report is likely to be published in the first week of this month.

In a summary of its own extensive report titled Burma 2010 Election Recap, rights think tank Altsean-Burma (Alternative Asean Network on Burma) said “widespread evidence of electoral fraud, irregularities, threats, harassment and lack of independent monitoring characterised election day and the days leading up to it”.

The USDP won 76.52 per cent of the 1,154 seats at stake in the election, Altsean said.