{"id":26877,"date":"2022-01-28T18:03:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T10:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=26877"},"modified":"2022-03-07T17:51:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T09:51:40","slug":"ec-must-set-up-overseas-polling-station-for-johor-state-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/ec-must-set-up-overseas-polling-station-for-johor-state-election\/","title":{"rendered":"EC must set up overseas polling station for Johor state election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Kulai-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Kulai-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Kulai-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Kulai-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Kulai-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Kulai-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Kulai-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Kulai-960x960.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Kulai.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Election Commission should set up overseas polling stations in Singapore in the upcoming 2022 Johor state election<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Johor state assembly was dissolved a few days ago.<br><\/li><li>There are about 400,000 Malaysians who are working in Singapore, of which many of them are Johorians. This is a significant number of voters that would affect the outcome of the state elections.<br><\/li><li>However, the vaccinated-travel-lane (VTL) limits the number of voters who can travel back to vote in the upcoming Johor state election.<br><\/li><li>In order to participate in the election, hundreds of thousands of Johor voters have to register and cast postal votes.<br><\/li><li>I hope that the Election Commission will not make life difficult for Johor voters. It must show strong commitment to allow more qualified Johor voters to vote.<br><\/li><li>The refusal to make allowance for an easier method for Johorean voters in Singapore to vote is a blatant disrespect of their constitutional democratic rights. There should not be hurdles set up nor the process cumbersome to prevent qualified voters from voting.<br><\/li><li>With that, I call upon the Election Commission to set up overseas polling stations in the High Commission of Malaysia in Singapore.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Teo Nie Ching<\/em><\/strong><br><strong><em>MP for Kulai<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Election Commission should set up overseas polling stations in Singapore in the upcoming 2022 Johor state election The Johor state assembly was dissolved a few days ago. There are about 400,000 Malaysians who are working in Singapore, of which many of them are Johorians. This is a significant number of voters that would affect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344],"tags":[335,2657,2665,155,147],"class_list":["post-26877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-highlights","tag-election-commission","tag-johor-state-election","tag-postal-voting","tag-singapore","tag-teo-nie-ching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26976,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26877\/revisions\/26976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}