Campus elections: free & fair?

Dato Haji Mahfuz bin Omar [Pokok Sena] minta MENTERI PENGAJIAN TINGGI menyatakan sejauh manakah perlaksanaan dan perjalanan pilihanraya kampus IPTA berlangsung sebagai pilihanraya yang bersih dan memenuhi kehendak prinsip serta amalan demokrasi. JAWAPAN: Tuan yang di-Pertua, Untuk makluman Ahli Yang Berhormat, Kementerian telah memberi kuasa kepada Naib Canselor dalam menguruskan pemilihan Majis Perwakilan Pelajar (MPP) [...]

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EC officially say no to 3rd vote-any wonder?

EC rules no go for third vote By Neville Spykerman SHAH ALAM, March 23 — The Election Commission (EC) has formally informed Selangor that it cannot restore the third vote. Officials from the state told The Malaysian Insider they had received an 11-page reply from the EC to their earlier inquiry on whether local council [...]

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Why BN refuse to bring back local government elections-Parliament reply

JAWAPAN BUKAN LISAN 19 OKT – 17 DIS 2009 SOALAN: YB PUAN TEO NIE CHING [SERDANG] minta MENTERI PERUMAHAN DAN KERAJAAN TEMPATAN menyatakan sebab Kementerian enggan memulihkan sistem pilihan raya bagi Pihak Berkuasa Tmpatan / Kerajaan Tempatan. JAWAPAN: Tuan Tang Di-pertua, Untuk makluman Ahli Yang Berhormat, Kemeterian perumahan dan kerajaan Tempatan (KPKT) tidak bercadang untuk [...]

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Gerakan hammer Nazri for claiming that automatic registration amount to forcing voters to vote

From the Edge’s report: In an immediate response to Nazri’s statement, Kedah Gerakan Youth chief Tan Keng Liang disagreed with Nazri, saying that an automatic voter registration did not equate to forcing Malaysians to vote. “With due respect to our minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, the proposal for automatic voters registration would not force [...]

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Automatic voter registration is `forcing’ voters-then Constitution is wrong?

Malaysian constitution give every citizen a right to vote-no mention that they need to register to get it. Registration is at most an administrative process-not something which should hinder voting rights. But in Malaysia the long time-up to 6 months-required to register as voters has demonstrably caused many citizens to lose their voting rights. Is [...]

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lame excuses against local government elections

Let’s expose the lame excuses against holding local government elections! They are saying that the locals don’t need to be given the choice on who lead them! Extend this argument to the state and federal level-then you know you are in the company of Mugabe, Marcos, Suharto etc. Ong BK http://themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/opinion/praba-ganesan/55904-local-elections-nuts-and-bolts Local elections: nuts and [...]

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EC discourage voters registration?

This is the 2nd time a state find it difficult to give voters registration forms for enfranchising new voters-it happen in Perak! The 1st instance was in Sarawak. Even though the EC chair had earlier admitted their failure to register some 5 million potential voters the EC has been adamant not to allow NGOs to [...]

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Options to conduct local government elections

All kinds of excuses have been raked up from the imagination to delay or stop local government elections-not least the bureaucratic type-as below, which make it look like conducting elections is so very difficult! As per such excuses there are options to overcome them: Need to reregister the voters and redraw the electoral boundaries-since local [...]

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This is how Penang should have restored council elections:

From the report below the law require the state government to gazette the area to be exempted from the implementation of the Local Government Act 1976 before it can move to hold election there. Has the state govt gazetted the area -and pass the resolution in the state assembly to enable the gazetting?Did the State [...]

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Penang to restore local elections-or cheap publicity stunt to cheer up 2nd anniversary of Mar 8th `tsunami’?

The Penang CM declared that they had written to the SPR to request the latter to organise long abandoned local council elections-seemingly to cheer up the 2nd anniversary of the Mar 8 `tsunami’ where it has been shrouded by the de-stabilising talks of defections. Some lawyers eg Derek Fernadez had pointed out that there is [...]

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