The Election Commission chief says this is to forestall any possibilty of double voting.
KOTA KINABALU: Election Commission management Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof pronounced a EC would make make use of of indelible inks of different colours for a allege as well as ordinary electorate to forestall any probability of double voting. "We will really make make use of of ink which stays longer for a allege voters. The open won't know a colour or a type of bottles for a ink until a day prior to a choosing by casting votes process," he said.
He additionally pronounced a 242,294 postal voters, comprising 94,613 military as well as 147,681 armed forces personnel, will turn allege electorate by default in a coming polls.
This follows a doing of a brand new regulation, which will be enforced for a first time during in a 13th ubiquitous election.
"Postal choosing by casting votes has caused most controversy as yet a routine was not transparent. We've discussed this with a Parliamentary Select Committee upon Electoral Reform, as well as it was concluded which an allege choosing by casting votes system be introduced in a election.
"The allege choosing by casting votes routine is similar to normal choosing by casting votes routine in which it won't make make use of of envelopes or bags; a only difference is a time as well as day of polling, which might be dual or 3 days prior to a actual polling day," he pronounced after opening a special briefing to returning officers as well as district military chiefs, here today.
The allege choosing by casting votes will allow members of a armed forces as well as police, as well as their spouses, to expel their ! votes ea rly so which they do not need to do so upon actual polling day, allowing them to lift out their duties as usual.
"Under a brand new regulation, those who qualified as postal electorate can turn allege voters. However, security crew who have been required to work upon assignment day or polling day, generally those stationed during a borders, can be considered to expel their votes around a post.
"They can apply to do so by stuffing up Form 1. The approving management is a returning officers of their particular polling centres," he said.
Meanwhile, Sabah Deputy Commissioner of Police Tan Kok Liang pronounced 8,000 crew would be deployed via a state to say sequence during a election.
Police would additionally take active measures to safeguard all crew would be able to liberate their responsibility as allege voters, he said.
-Bernama
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