Election Commission<\/A> (EC) deputy chairman Datuk Wan Ahmad Wan Omar said these people were denying themselves the right to elect their leaders. \u00c2\u201cMalaysians like to do things at the last minute \u00c2\u2013 even for registering as voters. But they forget that there is a three-month period for their names to be validated into the electoral roll.
\u00c2\u201cWhen their names are not in the electoral roll in time for an election, they will blame the EC for not providing enough facilities and venues for them to register themselves.
\u00c2\u201cThis happens every election,\u00c2\u201d he said during the launch of the nationwide campaign by the Malaysia National Sikh Movement (Gerak Sikh) to register voters.
Wan Ahmad said the EC had done everything to make it easy for people to register as voters, including establishing over 640 counters at post offices nationwide.
\u00c2\u201cThey can walk in and register in 15 minutes. But while people don\u00c2\u2019t mind queuing up to buy stamps, they complain of having to queue up at the EC counters,\u00c2\u201d he said.
There are 10.3 million registered Malaysian voters.
As at December 2006, Selangor had the highest number of eligible people yet to register as voters, followed by Sarawak (450,000), Johor (400,000) and Perak (375,000).
Seventy per cent of these people are between the ages of 21 and 35.
Wan Ahmad said the campaign by GerakSikh was the first time a non-governmental organisation was working with the EC to mobilise people to register as voters.
Under the campaign, GerakSikh would organise the registration of voters at various venues, with the EC providing mobile units. <\/P><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
wonder who will be shitting in their pants? bn, dap or pas? selangor, sarawak and perak – high number of non-muslims as compared to other states’ number of non-muslims. more concentration in town areas especially in selangor. johor – umno heartland. also, most are in the age bracket of 21-35, where education and […]<\/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":[131,119,19,133,278,148,147,111,141],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-bn","tag-dap","tag-education","tag-isa","tag-ngo","tag-perak","tag-selangor","tag-survey","tag-umno"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","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=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}