DAP will contest 47 parliamentary and 102 state seats in the 12th General Elections which will be held on 8 March 2008 (Saturday) to complete our historic mission to deny BN its 2/3 majority. To prevent BN from using dirty tactics on the polling day, we would like to urge you to be volunteer as a polling and/or counting agent for DAP candidates.
A polling agent (PA) is someone who sits in a polling stream (the classroom where the voting takes place) and observes the voting process. Each school may have a different number of polling streams (saluran mengundi) depending on the number of voters in that area. Each polling stream caters to a specific age group.
A counting agent (CA) is someone who observes the counting of the votes after polling closes at 5pm.
You don’t have to be a member of a political party to become a PA or a CA. You have to be Malaysian and above 21 to register as a PA or a CA. This is done through the political parties.
A PA is armed with a copy of the electoral roll for that particular classroom, pencil/pen and a ruler. The PA basically observes the voter as he/she enters the room. The election officer will read out the voter’s name, IC number and his/her number on the electoral roll. The PA will cross out the voter’s name on the electoral roll to ensure that we know exactly how many people voted in that classroom.
A PA must be alert and take note if there are any irregularities, eg. the voter is female but the IC number denotes the voter is male, the voter is much much older or younger than the IC indicates, the voter is Indian but has a Chinese name, etc. The PA has a right to object and raise questions.
Today is the last day for the registration of the polling agents and counting agents.
Please go to any DAP election operation center and sign up the form.
More details will be provided at the training which will be arranged later. It is a 1 1/2 – 2 hour session depending on Q&A. Training is free of charge.
To ease our arrangements, please submit your details as follow:
Full Name (as shown in IC):
Contact Number (House):
Contact Number (Mobile):
E-mail:
Constituency (State):
Constituency (Parliament):
Address (which you are currently staying):
We sincerely thank you in advance. Hope to hear from you soon.
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