Nearly 225,000 to cast their votes today

 

Ballot boxes will be kept at police station lockups until polling day, when the votes will be counted from 4pm.

KUALA LUMPUR: Nearly 225,000 early voters will cast their ballots at 578 early voting centres for the general election and the Bugaya by-election tomorrow.

Election Commission secretary Ikmalrudin Ishak said 117,473 were military personnel and their spouses and 107,355 were General Operations Force personnel and their spouses.

The early voting centres will open from 8am to 5pm but some will close early, the EC said.

He said the early voting process would be witnessed by agents of the candidates and the process at selected voting centres would also be streamed live via EC’s Facebook page.

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Ikmalrudin said all ballot boxes would be kept at police station lockups and the counting of ballot papers would be conducted on polling day, (Nov 19) from 4pm. - FMT