EC plans info blitz on indelible ink


The elect says it wants to forestall harm before or during a polls.
PETALING JAYA: The Election Commission (EC) is starting on a nationwide debate to educate electorate as well as domestic parties about a make make use of of of memorable ink.
The debate will be carried out through TV commercials, brochures as well as alternative forms of communication, according to a commission's deputy chairman, Wan Ahmad Wan Omar.
Among a categorical objectives is to forestall harm before or during a 13th ubiquitous election.
"We wish to have certain electorate won't be duped by insane parties who symbol them with a little alternative ink come polling day," Wan Ahmad told FMT.
He pronounced EC officers had been trained to spot a disproportion in between memorable ink as well as normal ink, though combined that a elect longed for to forestall "difficulties" that competence movement if electorate who had not expel their ballots arrived at polling stations with their fingers already marked.
Asked to insist why he suspicion any one competence wish to symbol a chairman who had not voted, he said: "People can do anything to emanate problems, may be to test a efficiency of a EC, or may be to have certain certain people do not vote."
He combined that a EC longed for to be prepared nonetheless it did not expect a complaint to be widespread.
"The whole purpose of having such ink is to forestall double voting. We do not wish anything that will defeat that purpose."
He pronounced a elect had placed an order with a association that would supply a ink as well as would call for a conveyance as soon! as Parl iament was dissolved.
"This is because a ink can usually final 3 months before it goes bad," he said. "We right away have a association on standby. Once you give a immature light, it will take less than a week for a supply to arrive."
The place of a association as well as a colour of a ink are kept tip to forestall sabotage.
The cost, including shipping, would be less than RM10 million, pronounced Wan Ahmad.
The make make use of of of memorable ink was one of a key recommendations of a Parliamentary Select Committee on Electoral Reforms, that was shaped after a Bersih 3.0 convene final April.
In a run up of a 2008 ubiquitous election, a make make use of of of a ink was cancelled only 3 days before a polls. This was on a advice of a Attorney-General, who pronounced there were doubts about a legality.
It was additionally reported that a police had unclosed attempts to smuggle a ink in to a country.
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