EC mulls using both biometric system and indelible ink

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug twenty-five The Election Commission (EC) may use both a biometric complement as well as indelible ink for a elections, laying to rest a ongoing squabble over a supremacy of either mechanism.

However, EC chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Yusof pronounced a commission was still study a legal implications of both systems as well as either they could be used upon a voluntary or imperative basis.

But he remarkable that if voters were not required by law to use a new system, it would render a entire exercise pointless.

That is because we wish to have sure everyone uses it, he said.

Asked if a EC would introduce a recommendation to a parliamentary name cabinet (PSC) for polls remodel to be shaped in October, Abdul Aziz (picture) pronounced a commission hoped to do so.

When asked if a changes would be implemented for a entrance polls, he said: Insyaallah.

He pronounced if a changes were to be done mandatory, amendments to election laws were needed to be passed in Parliament.

The commission, he said, was right away scheming a framework for a PSC, which is due to be presented to a Cabinet by Sep 7.

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