State polls: Voting resumes at Paya Terubong


GEORGE TOWN: Voting resumed at SK Seri Relau polling centre in Paya Terubong, after a voting stream was suspended following the discovery of an unsealed ballot box.

Pakatan Harapan's Paya Terubong candidate Wong Hon Wai said that the voting resumed at 1.26pm.

Picture by Sin Chew Daily.Picture by Sin Chew Daily.

Earlier, a total of 177 ballot papers were already cast into the box when Perikatan Nasional candidate Ooi Ghee Oon discovered the unsealed ballot box in SK Seri Relau.

Sin Chew Daily reported that Ooi declared he would not recognise any of the ballots in that box as valid votes and asked for Election Commission to suspend voting for that stream, which was to have 719 voters.

It is understood that the seal was left on the table next to the ballot box.

Election Commission officials are investigating and it is not yet known if the 177 ballot papers would be invalidated.

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