Polling over two days not wise

KUCHING: A political analyst disagrees with the Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (Bersih) Sarawak’s proposal for polling in Sarawak’s 12th state election be extended to two days and the campaign period from 14 to 21 days. Dr Lee Kuok Tiung, a senior lecturer at Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) said a longer period meant more […]

Longer polling fair to large constituencies

KUCHING: The Election Commission (EC) should consider for a longer polling period in constituencies with large number of voters. Political analyst Dick Lembang Dugun said the period of voting must take into consideration the total number of registered voters for each constituency. This is in the interest of fairness for constituencies which have many voters […]