DAPSY Perak today calls for the abolishment of the much disputed Postal Votes system in the coming General Election to ensure a clean and transparent election system.
It is shocked to learn that the Suruhanjaya Pilihanraya Raya is again contemplating to widen the scope of coverage for Postal Votes to include doctors, nurses and reporters on duty as part of those who are eligible to vote by post. The first attempt by SPR for the same purpose was announced in January 2010.
Despite the calls for the improvement in the country’s election system, we couldn’t see the SPR had taken any initiatives to improve the system. Yet, today the SPR has come out with this new idea which will lead to a higher number of Postal Votes.
The transparency of Postal Votes is highly questionable. There were doubts in the process of determination of the number of voters and the demarcating of the electoral boundaries, sending out of the ballot papers, the casting of ballot papers and the counting of the ballot papers.
DAP had experienced that the number of Postal Votes in Ipoh Timur and Canning had increased dramatically and drastically for almost 100% without the knowledge of the incumbent DAP’s representatives prior to the 2008 election.
The local constituents will be deprived of their rights to have their own representatives being elected if the number of Postal Voters, who are basically not the residents in the area, is considerable high. One may have obtained the majority support of the local constituents but yet losing out eventually due to the high number of Postal Votes.
Let’s allow the local constituents to choose their own representatives, let’s not deprive them of the rights of deciding their own future.
DAPSY Perak
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