Volunteers carry dwelling about 9,000 postal votes from S’pore

SINGAPORE: A bunch of Malaysian volunteers have efficiently introduced again about 9,000 postal votes for the final election (GE15) from Singapore early this morning.

The group, who’re a part of the 1thirdmedia Motion, organised a group marketing campaign for postal votes over the previous seven days from Malaysians who’re working and residing within the city-state.

1thirdmedia Motion was one of many actions that teamed up with Undi18, a Malaysian youth motion, to carry again postal votes from Singapore.

They’d performed the identical throughout the Johor state election earlier this yr.

“We really feel relieved to have the ability to full this obligation entrusted to us earlier than polling day. We hope that these votes will attain polling centres all through the nation on time,” volunteer Farrah Diyana Ali advised Bernama.

Farrah, 34, stated 5 assortment zones had been set as much as cowl the central, jap, western, northern and southern sectors of the island nation earlier than they have been mixed to be introduced into Malaysia.

The bins arrived round 2am on the sorting centre in Kuala Lumpur after the cut-off time for assortment at 2pm yesterday in Singapore.

“Glad… overwhelmed… to have the ability to carry dwelling these poll envelopes,” stated one other volunteer Calvin Ong.

“It’s a hit for our staff after every week of arduous work accumulating the postal votes.

“It’s very tiring however it’s a worthwhile mission for the sake of the nation,” stated Ong, 35, who hails from Taiping.

After all of the hardship, Ong left a easy message for over 20 million voters within the nation, “Exit and vote”.

In response to Undi18’s Twitter, there are one million Malaysian voters abroad. It had additionally shared just a few images exhibiting ballots that arrived from world wide at Kuala Lumpur Worldwide Airport (KLIA), with China and Germany being the earliest.

Aside from the 1thirdmedia Motion, the opposite teams serving to to carry again votes for GE15 are Vote Malaysia and World Malaysian Community.

All of the poll envelopes will likely be taken to the sorting centre in Kuala Lumpur for the sorting course of.

The deadline for postal poll papers to be obtained by the managing officer on the election division is earlier than 5pm on voting day.