{"id":1279,"date":"2008-02-14T10:22:15","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T02:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/02\/14\/all-voters-are-malaysian-voters-now\/"},"modified":"2008-02-14T10:22:15","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T02:22:15","slug":"all-voters-are-malaysian-voters-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/02\/14\/all-voters-are-malaysian-voters-now\/","title":{"rendered":"all voters are malaysian voters now"},"content":{"rendered":"

“If this is the case, then why are we dividing Malaysians by race in the electoral roll?”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Who is this “we”? Are they saying I’m part of the reason for having race in the electoral roll? How conveniently they try to shift the blame. They themselves had the “race” data all the time, and saying its “we” who did it!<\/p>\n

All voters are ‘Malaysian’ and not profiled by race
\nBy : Jason Gerald John
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MALACCA: Voters who are registered with the Election Commission are no longer divided according to race but are listed as “Malaysian”.
\nUnlike in previous elections, where the EC figures for a constituency were divided into the number of voters and their racial background, the latest electoral roll, which was gazetted yesterday, only states the number of voters in a particular constituency and not their race.<\/p>\n

A source said the move to identify voters as “Malaysian” was done to help the government create a Malaysian identity. “We are all Malaysians who are eligible to vote when we reach the age of 21. We do not see why we should divide voters by race into Malays, Chinese, Indians and “Others” in the electoral roll.<\/p>\n

“We are all Malaysians and we should be identified as Malaysians.”
\nThe source also said that when the country’s leaders spoke in overseas functions, they would say “Malaysian voters” elected them.<\/p>\n

“Even Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi says that the BN government was given the mandate by Malaysian voters when he addresses international forums. “If this is the case, then why are we dividing Malaysians by race in the electoral roll?”It is understood that the decision not to profile voters according to race was made by EC chairman Tan Sri Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“If this is the case, then why are we dividing Malaysians by race in the electoral roll?”. Who is this “we”? Are they saying I’m part of the reason for having race in the electoral roll? How conveniently they try to shift the blame. They themselves had the “race” data all the time, and saying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[112,130],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-discrimination","tag-election-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}