Mahkota polls: Birth confinement, old age no hindrance for voters


KLUANG: Even though it's only been a month since she gave birth to her first child, young mother Nur Syafiqah Azani who is still in confinement, was determined to go out and fulfill her responsibility as a voter of the Mahkota state by-election.

Nur Syafiqah, 19, of Sarawak said she did not want to miss out on voting because the by-election was her first, so she and her husband left early in the morning from their family home in Johor Baru.

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