Early voting for army personnel common practice, says law minister
The issuance of postal ballot papers for the fifteenth standard election (GE15), which commenced on Nov 7, to the ones registered as postal citizens is not unusualplace exercise in all elections, Minister withinside the Prime Minister’s Department (Parliament and Law) Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar stated today.
He stated this sort of procedure additionally worried navy employees registered as postal citizens.
As such, he stated there has been no problem concerning the matter, including that the returning officer had additionally knowledgeable the candidates’ dealers approximately the dates of issuing the postal votes.
“It is as much as the registered people who’ve acquired the postal ballot papers. What is essential is that the postal ballot papers need to attain the applicable workplace of the returning officer earlier than 5pm on polling day, Nov 19,” he stated in a assertion today.
Wan Junaidi stated this after Pakatan Harapan chairman Anwar Ibrahim’s latest declare that navy employees, mainly withinside the Bera parliamentary constituency, had already forged their votes for GE15.
Yesterday, Defence Forces leader Affendi Buang stated that balloting for Malaysian Armed Forces employees who’re registered postal citizens commenced on Nov 7 and might preserve till Nov 19 earlier than 5pm.
