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Feb 17, 2010
Voters registers updated
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According to a notice published on Wednesday in the electronic version of the Government Gazette, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has directed the Registration Officer to do the revision and complete it by March 31. -- ST PHOTO: LIM WUI LIANG
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FOR the second time within a year, the registers of voters are being updated.
According to a notice published on Wednesday in the electronic version of the Government Gazette, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has directed the Registration Officer to do the revision and complete it by March 31.
The last revision was called exactly a year ago, on Feb 17 last year, and completed by April 30.
Under the Parliamentary Elections Act, a revision has to be carried out not more than three years after a general election. As the last election was in May 2006, the revision had to be completed by May last year.
What is unusual about this year's revision is that it comes so soon after the previous revision.
Between the November 2001 and May 2006 general elections, the rolls were updated twice - first in September 2004 and then in January 2006, four months before the May 2006 polls.
Read the full report in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times.
Feb 17, 2010
Voters registers updated
<!-- by line --> By Kor Kian Beng POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
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FOR the second time within a year, the registers of voters are being updated.
According to a notice published on Wednesday in the electronic version of the Government Gazette, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has directed the Registration Officer to do the revision and complete it by March 31.
The last revision was called exactly a year ago, on Feb 17 last year, and completed by April 30.
Under the Parliamentary Elections Act, a revision has to be carried out not more than three years after a general election. As the last election was in May 2006, the revision had to be completed by May last year.
What is unusual about this year's revision is that it comes so soon after the previous revision.
Between the November 2001 and May 2006 general elections, the rolls were updated twice - first in September 2004 and then in January 2006, four months before the May 2006 polls.
Read the full report in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times.