February 19, 2010 17:13 PM
EC Targets 470,000 Eligible Voters In Sarawak
KUCHING, Feb 19 (Bernama) -- The Election Commission (EC) has begun engaging staff from relevant government agencies to facilitate a statewide voter registration exercise, targeting 470,000 eligible voters aged 21.
Its state director, Datuk Takun Sunggah, said government officers, including those from the Special Affairs Department, Community Development Department and the police, would be paid RM1 for each application form, as incentive to get more people to register as voters.
"At present, Sarawak, which has about 924,000 registered voters, ranks fourth nationwide, among states with the highest number of unregistered voters," he told Bernama here on Friday.
As part of the exercise, he said, the EC also aimed at increasing the number of registered voters in the civil service by seeking cooperation from federal departments and agencies in the state to identify their personnel, who were eligible voters.
Takun added that so far, the EC had registered 309 new voters, following feedback from 73 of the 122 government agencies.
-- BERNAMA
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