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January 06, 2006
voter registration via SMS in Malaysia
Malaysians will be able to register as voters online and through the short messaging service (SMS) once amendments to existing laws are made. Malaysia has 4 million eligible voters who are not registered [seems like a low number to me]. Most aren't registered due to lack of facilities and infrastructure, and personal preference. Officials discussed auto registering people when they turned 21, but decided that this method ran counter to democratic process.
i wonder how they're doing ID verification - didn't see anything about it in these articles.
see: http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Wednesday/National/20051228095128/Article/indexb_html
and
http://web.utm.my/today/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=231
Posted by ben at January 6, 2006 08:08 AM
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