Postal balloting — The Malaysian Insider

OCT 29 — Obviously, there is excitement and interest among Malaysians to vote in the next general election after seeing the results of Election 2008. Some want to keep the status quo, others want to change it. 

So, it is no surprise that postal balloting has come under the spotlight. Bersih 2.0 chairman Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan has disclosed that an application has been filed in the High Court on behalf of six plaintiffs for the Election Commission (EC) to allow postal balloting for Malaysians overseas. 

The hearing is scheduled for November 14. 

The EC is also mooting the extension of the postal or early voting system to cover voters from the media, medical, airlines, and offshore oil and gas industries. 

"We understand that some media groups are unable to cast their votes because duty calls, so do we do nothing? Therefore, we feel changes should be made to allow postal or early voting," EC chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof said yesterday. 

Great. Now everyone wants to resort to postal balloting as a means to decide the country's future government. 

While it is understandable that those who are stationed for some time at the frontlines or at their duty posts or university or work places want to have the ability to cast their vote, it does not make sense for those who are away for a day or a week. 

After all, the EC is already under fire for the way it conducts the postal balloting with reports from ex-soldiers that their superiors had filled up the ballots for them. 

Postal ballots are currently available to members of the police and armed forces based outside their constituencies, as well as election workers involved in the polling process. 

Fact is, the EC has been criticised for not considering the eight demands made by the Bersih 2.0 group until the Barisan Nasional (BN) government agreed to an all-party parliamentary select committee to look into electoral reforms. 

Perhaps, the commission should really look into the conduct of postal balloting and the conventional election process apart from cleaning up electoral rolls and ensuring all rules are adhered to before expanding postal balloting to other areas. 

The simple matter is this. Malaysians want free and fair elections. And for those unable to return, the ability to cast their vote in advance. Expanding it to those on temporary duty makes the entire exercise ludicrous.

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