{"id":376,"date":"2007-07-17T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/07\/17\/election-fever-ec-braces-for-election-190000-officers-appointed\/"},"modified":"2007-07-17T08:00:09","modified_gmt":"2007-07-17T00:00:09","slug":"election-fever-ec-braces-for-election-190000-officers-appointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/07\/17\/election-fever-ec-braces-for-election-190000-officers-appointed\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Fever – EC braces for election, 190,000 officers appointed"},"content":{"rendered":"
when is suitable time for election?<\/div>\n
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august – near to merdeka, can invoke feel good factor?<\/div>\n
sept – before budget?<\/div>\n
oct – puasa and raya time – not suitable<\/div>\n
nov – before spm starts?, bonus for govt staff should be arriving<\/div>\n
dec – people in holiday mood, and expenses for school etc – not good time?<\/div>\n
jan – before plus toll increases? <\/div>\n
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EC braces for election, 190,000 officers appointed<\/div>\n

By R.S.N. MURALI<\/p>\n

KUALA TERENGGANU<\/b>: The Election Commission (EC) is bracing for the 12th General Election, with some 190,000 electorate officers having been appointed nationwide.  <\/p>\n

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.  <\/p>\n

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.  <\/p>\n

Wan Ahmad noted that 4.82 million Malaysians from the 15.2 million who are eligible have yet to register as voters.  <\/p>\n

He said the EC would conduct a series of awareness campaigns to get them to do so.  <\/p>\n

"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.  <\/p>\n

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). <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

when is suitable time for election?   august – near to merdeka, can invoke feel good factor? sept – before budget? oct – puasa and raya time – not suitable nov – before spm starts?, bonus for govt staff should be arriving dec – people in holiday mood, and expenses for school etc – not good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[278,147,111],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-ngo","tag-selangor","tag-survey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}