Bangkok voters set to send message

Live update on the Bangkok gubernatorial election

Everyone says today is the day Bangkok voters will send a political message with more implications than who they want to lead garbage collection and supervise flood prevention. Whoever wins today's gubernatorial election and by how much will tell about how Bangkokians think about the national divide, Thaksin Shinawatra, the Democrat Party and future political course of the country as a whole.

This story will be updated with key developments, some rants and readers' opinions or questions. My email is tulsathit01@gmail.com and my twitter account is @tulsathit

You can read yesterday's live update here http://www.nationmultimedia.com/politics/Bangkok-election-Who-will-have-the-last-laugh-30201094.html It addressed chances of the two big parties, something I can't do today without police knocking on my door.

Sunday, 10.20 am: The poll has opened for some time now and it has given big-turnout hopers big hope. The EC expects it to exceed 60 per cent. To me, that's a bit ambitious. Every election day starts in a lively manner like this in Bangkok, only for the final turnout to make your jaws drop for the wrong reason.

Sunday, 11 am: Election laws mean it's extremely boring on Twitter and news web sites where only reports about the city gubernatorial poll have to do with which celebrity has voted where. By the way, just to tell you how close the press think this race is going to be, many newspapers have written analyses on opposing scenarios. Half of what's been written will have to be thrown away this evening, of course.

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