16500 ballot officers mobilised for impending elections
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Big deal, its 14 bucks at the food court.
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Originally posted by ditzy:
Big deal, its 14 bucks at the food court.
And only $9 (after taxes) for a pizza meal at Pizza Hut restaurant, plus you dun have to do self-service.
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Voter rolls updated again
The registers of electors are being revised again – the third time since 2006 General Election. (AFP File Photo)
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has directed that the registers of electors be updated again — Singaporeans 21 years old and above, and new immigrants who have taken up Singapore citizenship since Feb 1 last year are now qualified to be electors.
The third revision since the May 2006 General Election, the notice published in the Government Gazette yesterday indicated that changes will be made and completed by Feb 18.
MPs and political observers have seen the move as a way to ensure that there would be more eligible voters at the next polls due by February next year, reported The Straits Times.
“It’s a good move to allow more people who are entitled to vote to do so,” said Hong Kah GRC MP Alvin Yeo. “Those not entitled to vote can also take steps to put themselves back on the registers.”
Not everyone feels positively about the latest update, however.
Mr Eugene Tan, a law lecturer at the Singapore Management University, said there may be those who take the skeptical view that the latest revision aims to include more new citizens who are more supportive of the Government.
“But the revision will also include more young people, who are perceived to be more unpredictable in their voting decisions and less enamoured with the ruling People’s Action Party,” he added.
News of the revision has also invited fresh speculation about the timing of the next polls.
Ang Mo Kio GRC MP Inderjit Singh believes that the Electoral Boundaries Review Committee will release its report shortly after the latest revision to reflect the most updated demographic trends, paving the way for polls by June this year.
Polling and district boundaries will also be reviewed and altered to ensure that no polling station handles too many or too few voters.
The Parliamentary Elections Act limits revision of voter rolls to a maximum of three years after an election.
The rolls were revised once between the 1988 and 1991 general elections and twice each time ahead of the elections in 1997, 2001 and 2006.
The second revision ahead of the 2006 General Election, for instance, was ordered in January 2006 and completed by Feb 28, some two months before the polls on May 6 that year.
Since the 2006 election, the registers have also been revised twice – in February 2009 and February 2010.
The second revision showed 2,311,582 eligible voters as at March 31 last year, approximately 40,000 more than 2.26 million names on the rolls after the first.
An Elections Department spokesman said more details about the revision can be expected in two weeks’ time.
Source:
http://sg.yfittopostblog.com/2011/01/04/voter-rolls-updated-again/ -
for the presidential election.
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Jan 13, 2011 - Straits Times
Registers of Electors complete and ready for inspection
by Vanessa Jalleh
HE revised Registers of Electors for all 14 Group Representation Constituencies (GRC) and 9 Single Member Constituencies (SMC) have been completed and will be open for public inspection from Jan 14 - 27.
Eligible voters can now check with the Elections Department, Inspection Centres for the respective Constituencies and the nine Overseas Registration Centres.
During this period, checking of the Registers of Electors may also be done online at the Elections Department website (www.elections.gov.sg).
The registration of overseas electors will start this Friday as well. Applications may be submitted online through the Elections Department website.
Alternatively, it can be submitted in person or by post to the Elections Department or to any of the nine Overseas Registration Centres.
The next General Elections must be held not later than 2 Feb, 2012.
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Originally posted by ditzy:
Big deal, its 14 bucks at the food court.
14 bucks is a lot of money.
