While commending Sunday's advance voting as relatively well managed, the Asian Network for Free Election (Anfrel) has urged the Election Commission (EC) to place more emphasis on the quality of polling booth officials and called for transparent storage and counting of ballots and transporting of votes cast outside home provinces.

The Anfrel report said  advance voting on Sunday, in which nearly three million voters had registered to vote early in or outside their home electorates,  was quite a development for Thailand, said the Bangkok-based free election advocacy group.