Road Show volunteer Wai Fong working hard to register an otherwise disenfranchised old woman in Long Sg Dua, Ulu Baram
The voter registration campaign through the monthly Sarawak Road Show almost came to a halt after July when it was found that less than 10% of its application forms submitted through PKR or SADIA was approved! Where have the forms gone and why the low approval rate where elsewhere the rejection rate is about 10%? Many visits to the EC offices in Putrajya and Kuching later-which spanned 4 months, the first batch of the voters are finally approved-numbering 285, out of 352 checked! This is the first time that the Road Show can claimed to have help register the 1st interior Sarawakian as a voter where they are usually shun by all parties for voter registration exercise due to the huge distances involved in traveling there. So what took so long for their registration?
Many factors are involved -may be an example may suffice to illustrate the problems:
JOAS’s press statement:
Kami berasa amat kecewa kerana pejabat SPRM Limbang tersebut ditutup tidak lama selepas projek penambahbaikan siap.
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