Just when you think you need not check these quarterly electors’ roll-you may be surprised something funny could happen to your voters’ registration:
October 28, 2008 10:33 AM
2008 Third Quarter Electoral Roll Goes On Display From Tuesday
PUTRAJAYA, Oct 28 (Bernama) — The supplementary electoral roll for the third quarter of 2008 will go on display from [...]
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Posted in Campaign on 28/10/2008 | 1 Comment »
The discrepancies between the rules for UMNO party elections and General Elections has grown more and more glaring by the day: UMNO has found unregulated and unlimited campaign expenses to be a nuisance -giving rise to pervasive perception of `money politics’ or an euphemism for votes buying, associated to UMNO party elections. So a smart [...]
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Posted in General on 20/10/2008 | Leave a Comment »
The UMNO party elections have so far seen numerous complaints reflecting a less than good respect for fair election rules. So when an UMNO leader holding a Minister position speculate that the extra ballots found in a party election as `technical problems’ then we can expect that there is little concern about fraudulent practices. Extra [...]
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The much anticipated Kulim by-election will not be happening because the BN petitioner withdraw his case. Is it because he got cold feeted on his case or there are politically expedient agenda here? From a democratic perspective the by-election should be held to gauge who the voters there want to represent them. If a candidate [...]
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Posted in General on 09/10/2008 | Leave a Comment »
The electoral culture in Malaysia is still far from the international standards of free and fair elections, as reflected by the high number of election complaints received by UMNO’s own disciplinary committee. The same could be said of the conducts in other parties. Such conducts may explain how the national elections tend to follow free [...]
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