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Thursday May 3, 2007

MIC to go all out to register voters

KUALA LUMPUR: The MIC will conduct a massive voter registration exercise, its president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said.

He said a national committee, to be headed by one of the party’s three vice-presidents, would be set up to spearhead the campaign.

»We want every eligible Indian to be registered as a voter to face the next general election« DATUK SERI S. SAMY VELLU
“We want every eligible Indian to be registered as a voter to face the next general election,” Samy Vellu said.

He said that in the Ijok by-election, it was found that many Indians had not registered as voters.

“The Indian votes are very crucial for Barisan Nasional, as evident from the Ijok by-election,” he said in reference to the polls on April 28, which saw Barisan’s K. Parthiban beating Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim of Parti Keadilan Rakyat by a 1,850-vote majority.

Samy Vellu, who said that almost 80% of the registered Indian voters in Ijok had cast their votes for Parthiban, added that the more than 4,000 MIC branches had been given a month to submit to the party headquarters the list of eligible but unregistered voters.

“The MIC headquarters will then assist the Election Commission to register them,” he said, adding that he had asked all branch heads to make house-to-house visits to identify the new voters.

In some cases, he said, a single house would have as many as four or five unregistered voters.

Samy Vellu also said the MIC branches had been told to identify voters who had changed their house addresses so that they could be traced during an election. – Bernama

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