KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 30 — Barred from voting by post, a growing number
of the estimated 400,000 Malaysians living in Singapore are planning to
return home to cast their ballot in Election 2013, the Straits Times (ST) newspaper reported today.
The Singapore daily reported more than 100 people have registered with a carpooling website, Balik Undi,
run by the Singapore chapter of local polls reform group, Bersih, which
aims to help Malaysians save on travel costs for that trip home during
the 13th general elections that mist be called by April.
The website helps to match drivers and passengers who share similar destinations through an online form.
Bersih Singapore coordinator Ong Guan Sin told ST that the group will
be pushing the campaign hard after the Election Commission (EC)
announced last week that Malaysians living and working in across the
Causeway and in neighbouring southern Thailand, Brunei and Kalimantan in
Borneo Indonesia would be excluded from a new regulation allowing
Malaysians abroad to vote by post.
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