{"id":1287,"date":"2008-02-13T14:52:35","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T06:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/02\/13\/ec-says-voters-identity-cannot-be-traced-back\/"},"modified":"2008-02-13T14:52:35","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T06:52:35","slug":"ec-says-voters-identity-cannot-be-traced-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/02\/13\/ec-says-voters-identity-cannot-be-traced-back\/","title":{"rendered":"EC says voter&#8217;s identity cannot be traced back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Last time I remembered the staff writing something with a pencil on the list of voters name they had. Not very sure about it since it has been 4 years already.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nVoter&#8217;s number not noted in coming polls<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/2\/13\/nation\/20308768&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PUTRAJAYA: For the first time, a voter&#8217;s electoral number from the computer printout at the polling station will not be noted on the ballot paper.<\/p>\n<p>In previous elections, the electoral number was written on the counterfoil of the ballot paper, leading to complaints that the voter&#8217;s identity could be known.<\/p>\n<p>Election Commission (EC) secretary Datuk Kamaruzaman Mohd Noor gave an assurance that the votes would be a secret because there was &#8220;no way we can trace&#8221; who the voters cast their ballot for.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Voting is a confidential matter and there should be no way for it to be known how a voter casts his vote,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the past, the number was written in the counterfoil in the event there was a need for the EC judge to check if there was a fake vote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have stopped this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The counterfoil, the votes and voters registration book were all destroyed after the election, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Last time I remembered the staff writing something with a pencil on the list of voters name they had. Not very sure about it since it has been 4 years already.<\/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":[130],"class_list":["post-1287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-election-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287","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=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}