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KUALA TERENGGANU: The Election Commission (EC) is bracing for the 12th General Election, with some 190,000 electorate officers having been appointed nationwide.
EC deputy chairman Datuk Wan Ahmad Wan Omar said it has already begun briefing those involved for the polls expected late this year or early next year.
Frequent courses and campaigns have been organised to "ensure a smooth process even if the election is called at any time," he said here Monday.
Wan Ahmad noted that 4.82 million Malaysians from the 15.2 million who are eligible have yet to register as voters.
He said the EC would conduct a series of awareness campaigns to get them to do so.
"We hope to get them to exercise their rights as citizens, and will work closely with the various political parties to disseminate the message to unregistered voters," he said.
Wan Ahmad said Selangor had the highest number of unregistered voters with 700,000 people, followed by Johor (600,000), Kuala Lumpur (300,000), Sarawak (360,000), Kedah (285,000), Terengganu (75,000) and Kelantan (197,000).
