Comments have been posted on web boards that on the ballot paper for the party list, the symbol for Pheu Thai Party (PTP) appears unusually small.  The parry symbol is also different from the one on the Election Commission of Thailand (ECT) website.

Sample ballot paper for constituency elections on 3 July 2011

Sample ballot paper for party list election on 3 July 2011.  Web Boards have noticed that in the column for party symbols, the one for the PTP (top left) is unusually small.

Ballot papers use a different logo from the one on the ETC website

16 June 11.  Web boards and chat rooms are posting sample ballots for the 3 July election, both for party list and constituency votes.  It was noticed that on the ballot for the party list vote, the symbol for the PTP appears unusually small.
   
The PTP symbol is so small that the cell almost appears empty.  It is also different from the one on the ETC website.

The ballot papers for the constituency vote and the party list vote are different in another way.  The constituency vote ballot has 4 columns with 15 rows and 60 numbers, while the party list vote ballot has 2 columns of 20 rows, with 40 numbers, in line with the number of parties submitting lists of MP candidates.

Plodprasop Suraswadi, Deputy Heads of the PTP, said in a statement on 15 June that they had received calls from Thais with the right to vote overseas that the ballot papers were that way.  The space for marking he ballot was very small and there was no party symbol.  This led people to believe that they could put two crosses.  The PTP had therefore prepared a letter to the ETC to question this.

Sodsri Sattayatham asks if Pheu Thai win by a landslide, will the election be voided?

15 June 11.  ASTV Manager Online quotes Mrs Sodsri Sattayatham of the ECT’s Party Political Affairs Bureau speaking on the possibility that the PTP will complain about the ballot papers.  She said frankly that she and the ECT have not yet seen the ballot papers.  On the claim that the 7th name on the Chat Thai Pattana party list is a member of the Government Lottery Office committee while the ECT had ordered the Government Lottery Office to print the ballot papers, the matter was not yet clear.  She wished to say frankly that at present we shouldn’t do anything to create confusion.  If things got very confused, the military were waiting and now they are already making noises and had sent lots of signals, so we should make the atmosphere good.

Asked whether the ballot papers were OK or may cause the election to be voided, Mrs Sodsri said people wanted to ask if the election resulted in a landslide PTP victory, would they call for the election to be voided?  She couldn’t understand why they have to make such a fuss.  In any case, she had asked the Election Administration Bureau what the ballot papers were like.  The officials had told her they were A4 size and she should really have ballot papers to show, but she had not seen the ballot papers that had been shown online.