Tawee Claims Senate Vote Rigging: 149 Candidates Selected, Not 138
Pheu Thai MP Tawee Sodsong claims 149 Senate candidates were elected through suspicious voting patterns, not the reported 138, after finding 332 ballots across occupational groups with identical candidate number sequences.
On August 5, 2025, Pol. Col. Tawee Sodsong, a Pheu Thai list MP, presented evidence indicating that 149 Senate candidates were elected instead of the 138 widely reported. The discovery centers not on individual fraud but on a voting pattern hidden within the ballots. When this pattern was cross-checked against official election results, Tawee found that 149 candidates from matching numbered sets appeared on published ballots and were elected to the Senate, representing 74.5 percent of the 200 senators elected.
Examining morning-round ballots across all 20 occupational groups, Tawee identified numerous cases where voters wrote identical candidate numbers in all 10 slots, in the same sequence without variation—from slot 1 through slot 10. Some ballots showed minor deviations in only one or two slots while the rest remained identical. Across all 20 occupational groups, at least 332 ballots exhibited identical matching number sets in the same order.
The evidence by group included: Group 1 with 18 matching ballots, Group 2 with 16, Group 3 with 16, Group 4 with 16, Group 5 with 17, Group 6 with 16, Group 7 with 16, Group 8 with 20, Group 9 with 17, Group 10 with 20, Group 11 with 18, Group 12 with 11, Group 13 with 13, Group 14 with 18, Group 15 with 14, Group 16 with 18, Group 17 with 19, Group 18 with 13, Group 19 with 19, and Group 20 with 17 ballots. Comparing morning results with official outcomes, almost all candidates from these matching number sets ranked high in their occupational groups, mostly in positions 1 through 10 or up to rank 15, and all advanced to the national selection level.
