Published: Wednesday December 16, 2009 MYT 2:09:00 PM
Half-a-million Perakians yet to register as voters
By IVAN LOH
IPOH: There are about 500,000 qualified voters in Perak who have yet to register themselves with the Election Commission.
Perak Election Commission director Ahmad Adli Abdullah said the figure consists mostly of those who had just passed the majority age of 21.
”We are using various channels to get the younger generation to register themselves,” he said after a banner presentation ceremony at the Ipoh Post Office here on Wednesday.
”We are also getting politicians to help their constituents to register,” he said, adding that it was the people’s duty as citizens to register themselves to vote.
He noted that there were about 1.2 million registered voters in the state, consisting of about 1.1 million regular voters and about 29,000 postal voters.
Ahmad Adli said the post office was a preferred place for young voters to register.
However, he said many people were still unaware that they could register or change their voting address at post offices throughout the state.
”We will be hiring more staff to man the counters at post offices and would also be going down to the ground into rural areas to urge village heads to help us,” he said.
He said the Commission would also get lists from various government departments to check on their employees’ registration status.
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