SEREMBAN: There is nothing to worry about how postal votes are handled in the upcoming Bagan Pinang by-election.
Election Commission chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof said this was because postal votes were kept under tight security by the returning officer and police.
“The process is transparent. The votes are brought out on the actual voting day and then counted together with the other votes,” he said yesterday.
Abdul Aziz was responding to state PKR chief Datuk Kamarul Bahrain Abbas who said yesterday that Pakatan Rakyat wanted the commission to allow the counting of postal votes for the by-election to be carried out on the same day the ballots were cast.
Kamarul Bahrain said this was important because postal votes made up almost 37% of the total votes for the state seat.
Abdul Aziz also said senior officers of the army and police personnel would not know who their men voted for because the ballots were taken to the police station and kept under tight security.
He said the commission allowed the representatives of political parties to be present when the postal ballots are cast.
Kamarul Bahrain earlier said state PAS commissioner Zulkefly Mohamad Omar and state DAP chief Anthony Loke Siew Fook agreed with his stand.
He added postal voters, especially those in the army, should also not be made to feel insecure when casting their ballots as their senior officers were often present during the process.
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