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Public anger building up over found election boxes
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Public anger building up over found election boxes
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Last month, used ballot boxes were found in a school in Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC. Since then public anger has been building up on the issue.
Minister Chan said the fact that some boxes were found clearly suggested an oversight by working personnel involved in the collection of discarded material after polling.
Elections Department said they had outsourced the disposal of the used ballot boxes to a contractor. After they surfaced, Elections Department quickly made a police report.
“In this particular case, the emptied, disused boxes are non-controlled items. For the Elections Department, the priority is to ensure that all controlled items, for example ballot papers are properly accounted and this we have done so over the course of the election,” said Chan.
He said that following the incident, the Elections Department had gone back to check all 164 schools which were used as Counting Centres for the Presidential Election in 2011. Several more disused boxes were found in 5 schools which were used as counting centres.
Several articles have appeared on the internet raising serious questions about the electoral process.
These articles have certainly raised our awareness further regarding this issue. The incumbent thought they can get away with giving a blunt explanation but not anymore when we have great commentators and bloggers around who are not afraid to question the obviously dysfunctional incumbents.
We must let the incumbents know that gone were the days where Singaporeans will take whatever half-baked explanations they thrown at us in the hope to shut us up from making further “noises”. Today is the era of the fibre optic information age and smart phones with cameras.
We shouldn’t be put off by explanation given by anyone which does not answer questions raised by the issue.
Until the questions raised online are satisfactorily answered, the issue should not be put to rest. And if any discrepancies were found in the electoral process which gives validity to the questions raised by the public then the only logical way to sort out everything is to call another presidential election with the same candidates.
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Last month, used ballot boxes were found in a school in Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC. Since then public anger has been building up on the issue.
Minister Chan said the fact that some boxes were found clearly suggested an oversight by working personnel involved in the collection of discarded material after polling.
Elections Department said they had outsourced the disposal of the used ballot boxes to a contractor. After they surfaced, Elections Department quickly made a police report.
“In this particular case, the emptied, disused boxes are non-controlled items. For the Elections Department, the priority is to ensure that all controlled items, for example ballot papers are properly accounted and this we have done so over the course of the election,” said Chan.
He said that following the incident, the Elections Department had gone back to check all 164 schools which were used as Counting Centres for the Presidential Election in 2011. Several more disused boxes were found in 5 schools which were used as counting centres.
Several articles have appeared on the internet raising serious questions about the electoral process.
These articles have certainly raised our awareness further regarding this issue. The incumbent thought they can get away with giving a blunt explanation but not anymore when we have great commentators and bloggers around who are not afraid to question the obviously dysfunctional incumbents.
We must let the incumbents know that gone were the days where Singaporeans will take whatever half-baked explanations they thrown at us in the hope to shut us up from making further “noises”. Today is the era of the fibre optic information age and smart phones with cameras.
We shouldn’t be put off by explanation given by anyone which does not answer questions raised by the issue.
Until the questions raised online are satisfactorily answered, the issue should not be put to rest. And if any discrepancies were found in the electoral process which gives validity to the questions raised by the public then the only logical way to sort out everything is to call another presidential election with the same candidates.
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