Malaysia GE 15

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Time to vote: Our 3 proposals for GE15

YESTERDAY, caretaker prime minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob announced that he had received approval from the Yang di-Pertuan Agong to dissolve Parliament immediately. This means that the 15th General Election (GE15) season has officially begun.

While the nominations and voting dates have yet to be confirmed, the Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall (KLSCAH) believes that the Election Commission (EC) should give a three-week campaign period for each party.

Below are the suggestions (and the advantages) listed by KLSCAH for extending the campaign period to 21 days so that all political parties can have more time to choose the best candidates and prepare for GE15.

This will also allow both local and overseas voters to exercise their right to vote and fulfil their civic duty.

1. Fine-tune the overseas voting process: Overseas voters will have more time to mail their ballots back to Malaysia with the extension of the campaign period to 21 days. They will avoid losing their right to vote as a result of delays in ballot dispatching. In addition, the EC should consider the possibility of allowing eligible overseas voters to digitally download their ballots from the official EC website. This is to simplify the application procedure for overseas postal votes, and to save unnecessary election expenses incurred in the printing of postal ballots.
   

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