KUALA LUMPUR 12/04/2018. A notice about the sold out ticket being display at the KTM Counter, KL Sentral. Train ticket from Kuala Lumpur to North way being sold since the announcement of polling day on 9 May 2018. MALAYMAIL/Azneal Ishak.
KUALA LUMPUR — Voters yet to book their train tickets home for the general election are out of luck as all were snapped up within a day of the announcement that polling will be on May 9.
Malay Mail checked the Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB) counters in KL Sentral this afternoon and found notices informing the public that tickets for its Electric Train Service were sold out for both May 8 and 9.
A counter staff said travellers had begun arriving to get their tickets within moments of the Election Commission’s announcement on Tuesday afternoon.
“The following day, by noon, all tickets were sold out just like that,” the staff said, adding tickets for May 7 and from May 10 were still available.
A notice informing the public that tickets for the eve of polling day (May 8) have been sold out is seen at the KTM ticketing counter in KL Sentral, Kuala Lumpur April 12, 2018.On Tuesday, the EC set April 28 for nomination, May 5 for advance voting and May 9 for polling.
The announcement that polling will be on a Wednesday caused immediate controversy and prompted complaints that the move would discourage Malaysians from voting, particularly those from Sabah and Sarawak who work in the peninsular.
Some companies responded by giving employees three days’ holiday and even offered to pay for workers to travel back to their constituencies to vote.
However, the Prime Minister’s Office announced yesterday that polling day will be an ad hoc national holiday to allow Malaysians to perform their duty as voters.
The midweek polling day is rare, but not unprecedented.
However, this will be the first general election to take place on a Wednesday since 1959.
A notice informing the public that tickets for the eve of polling day (May 8) have been sold out is seen at the KTM ticketing counter in KL Sentral, Kuala Lumpur April 12, 2018. — Picture by Azneal Ishak
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