🚀 go-pugleaf

Faruq Nelson <faruq@STUDENTS.UIUC.EDU> said:
>Last time there was a voter registration exercise like this, I
>inquired on behalf of my wife with the Malaysian Embassy in
>Washington, DC, regarding the procedure. The embassy staff were
>totally unaware that there was even a voter-registration exercise
>in progress. Then they insisted that voting from outside Malaysia
>is impossible. But once the voter-registration exercise was
>completed, the newspapers carried a story in which the head of the
>Election Commission complained about the large number of Malaysians
>overseas who "did not bother" to register to fulfill their civic
>obligation to vote.

Really? I was under the impression that we are not allow to absentee
vote. I remember all the big news about how they made special
arrangements for our troops in Bosnia.
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Ian Chai <chai@uiuc.edu>                 http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/chai