KUALA LUMPUR, April 24 – Media practitioners have begun to receive postal voting papers in stages to enable them to vote for the 13th general election (GE13). The Election Commission’s (EC) Public Relations Officer, Sabri Said told Bernama that the special envelopes containing the ballot papers for the Parliamentary and State constituency candidates had been issued from April 22 by the Returning Officers (RO) at the places where they registered and cast their ballots.
“The special envelopes were sent to the voters via registered mail by Pos Malaysia Berhad,” he said when contacted today. He said the ballot papers must be returned to the election Returning Officers by post without postage stamps by 5pm on May 5 at the latest.
“However, the actual number of media practitioners who would be using this facility will only be known after the EC receives the statistics from the RO in each state,” he said.
Based on a Bernama report previously, about 10,000 media workers would be using this facility. For the general election this time, all media workers including journalists, photographers, cameramen and technicians working outside the area where they had registered as voters were eligible to vote by post.
Besides the media practitioners, others eligible to vote by post are military and police personnel working outside their postal areas, absent voters (PTH), namely civil servants working in foreign missions and full-time students overseas and their spouses, Malaysians registered voters residing abroad and EC workers.
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