Day: March 7, 2008

Some do’s and don’ts on polling day

The Star: March 7, 2008 PETALING JAYA: No one is allowed to wear, hold or carry any form of clothing, head covering, ornament, rosette, water bottle or umbrella showing the symbol of any political party within 50m of the polling station.

DAP slammed for making allegation

The Star: March 7, 2008 MALACCA: Barisan Nasional has hit out at the DAP here for alleging discrepancies in the number of postal voters for the Kota Melaka parliamentary seat.

Editorial: Smear campaign

NST: 6 March 2008 The level-headed masses of the electorate (who we must assume are somewhere sensibly above and beyond the sound and fury of political gamesmanship in these last days before polling in the country’s 12th general election) would find it sadly plausible that

Vandals 'paint' EC head's house red

Malaysiakini Ng Ling Fong & Chan Kok Leong | Mar 6, 08 Election Commission head has felt the backlash of a decision against the use of indelible ink – vandals splashed the outside of his house with bright red paint early this morning.

Red paint hurled on front gate

NST: March 7, 2008 By ANDREW SAGAYAM KUALA LUMPUR: Vandals hurled red paint on the front gate of Election Commission (EC) chairman Tan Sri Rashid Abdul Rahman’s Lembah Pantai house.

BN threatens to deny RM400m flood mitigation for Sibu

Malaysian Media Monitors’ Diary 6 Mar 2008 The Borneo Post has carried this BN threat to punish the voters of Sibu by denying them flood mitigation measures if they vote for the Opposition: the money for the much-needed projected would be diverted elsewhere if that

Postal voting secrecy compromised: polls watchdog

Malaysiakini Athi Veeranggan | Mar 6, 08 During his observation, Mafrel northern region coordinator BK Ong discovered that all the army and police personnel were required to fill up a separate identity declaration form consisting of their name, identity card number and ballot paper’ serial

EC Dismisses Claim Of Transfer Of Postal Voters

MELAKA, March 6 (Bernama) — The Election Commission (EC) has dismissed an allegation that it had transferred postal voters to different constituencies.Melaka Election Director Dzulkifli Ab Rahman said today such an allegation would only confuse the people and their confidence in the EC. He said