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The names of persons who failed to cast
their votes at the Poll on 6 May 2006 for the last General Election will
be expunged from the Registers of Electors. |
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The list of such persons will be available
for inspection from 28 June 2006 onwards at the Elections Department and
designated community centres/clubs listed in
Annex A. |
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Electors who failed to vote at the last
General Election can apply to restore their names to the Registers of
Electors using a prescribed application form (known as Form A) which can
be obtained from the Elections Department, any community centre/club or
any Singapore overseas diplomatic mission during their normal business
hours. |
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Alternatively, the application form can be
downloaded from the Elections Department website at
www.elections.gov.sg. |
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The duly completed application forms should
be returned, by post or fax, to the Registration Officer, Elections
Department, 11 Prinsep Link, Singapore 187949. The fax number is
63323428. |
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Applicants are required to produce
documentary evidence to substantiate their inability to vote. An
applicant¡¯s name will be restored without penalty if he has good and
sufficient reason for not recording his vote. The penalty is $5. |
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The lists of electors in polling
districts AJ24 and AJ25 of Aljunied Group Representation
Constituency (GRC) who failed to cast their votes will be
published later. |
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The lists cannot be prepared now because
the ¡°marked copies of the Registers of Electors¡± for these 2 polling
districts (which show the names of electors who have cast their
votes on Polling Day) were inadvertently placed together with the
counted ballot papers and other documents by the staff at the
Xinghua Primary School Counting Centre in the ballot boxes and
sealed therein. |
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In accordance with the Parliamentary
Elections Act, all the sealed boxes containing ballot papers and
other documents relating to the election are now kept in the vault
of the Supreme Court pending destruction at the end of 6 months
after the poll (i.e. from 6 November 2006). |
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During the 6 months¡¯ period, only a
Judge of the High Court can order the sealed boxes to be opened and
even then it can only be for the purpose of instituting or
maintaining a prosecution or an application to invalidate an
election. |
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At the end of the 6 months after the
poll, the contents of the ballot boxes must all be destroyed unless
otherwise directed by Order of the President. |
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The President has by Order directed the
Returning Officer to retrieve only the ¡°marked copies of the
Registers of Electors¡± for polling districts AJ24 and AJ25 of
Aljunied GRC on 6 November 2006 or thereafter for the purpose of
preparing the lists of electors in these 2 polling districts who
failed to vote at the General Election 2006. |
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The President has also directed that
these ¡°marked copies of the registers of Electors¡± are to be
destroyed by the Returning Officer not later than 30 days from the
date of their retrieval from the boxes. |
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The lists of non-voters in polling
districts AJ24 and AJ25 of Aljunied GRC will therefore be published
for inspection on or after 6 November 2006. Electors in these
polling districts can then apply in the same manner to have their
names restored to the register of electors. |
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ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT |
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28 JUNE 2006 |
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More..... (Annex) |
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Source:
www.elections.gov.sg
Press Release 28 Jun 2006 |
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