Yes. On September 28, 2026, Thailand’s Constitutional Court ruled that barcodes and QR codes on ballot papers used in the February 8 general election did not violate constitutional requirements for direct and secret voting, so the election remains valid. Petitioners had argued the codes could make ballots traceable to individual voters; the court found that identifying a voter would require combining a ballot, its stub, and the voter register under safeguards that made unauthorized matching difficult.
Source: Khaosod English — Court rules 2026 general election remains valid amid barcode controversy