News Source: The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, April 3 — Parliament’s panel on electoral improvements failed to make specific recommendations on how to clean up the electoral roll, a polls reform group said today. The National Institute for Electoral Integrity (NIEI) said in a statement today that “while key issues pertaining to the voter registration process and the electoral roll have been noted, the report lacks specific short-term recommendations to address the key concerns that the very same committee...

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News Source: Free Malaysia Today   PETALING JAYA: Media personnel should be given the option to choose if they want to vote as postal voters or cast their ballots on polling day at their respective constituencies, said the National Union of Journalists (NUJ). “Journalists must have that option,” said the union’s general secretary V Anbalagan in reaction to the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) on electoral reforms recommendation that journalists be registered as postal voters. The nine-member PSC had proposed...

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