FICAC replacement

modem to EFL.

What can EFL do about these power surges?

NORMAN YEE

Martintar, Nadi

Postal votes

THE Supervisor of Elections Mohammed Saneem seems now to be bemoaning the low number of postal votes received.

I do not disagree with his concern especially when the FEO did several expensive trips to Australia and NZ trying to register voters, opened and ended registrations on many occasions and did some targeted blitzes to try and reach out to voters.

Against the moneys spent by FEO, it does seem a waste.

Let me also advise him of the other major reasons which have affected the low number of postal votes.

People waited for a long time before the election date was announced and of course this happens to be during exams and when people have booked to go on holidays for the major annual break.

For postal votes, the notice given by the

SOE I believe was short and for many of us based abroad, the requirements were quite expensive.

Getting a public notary to witness one’s voter application will cost you around $A50.

Why isn’t a voter’s registration number and an online application sufficient?

As always, the process is being made so complex and unwieldly that this is now a major burden. And frankly why do these need to close three to four weeks before actual election date?

If the Government and FEO wants to encourage voters to vote, they should make the process more streamlined.

ALTAUF CHAND

Minto, NSW

ARE those parties that want to get rid of FICAC have an alternative?

Are those politicians preaching the FICAC disbandment setting the grounds and plans for similar scenarios like what happened in the multi-million dollar National Bank of Fiji collapse and the agriculture scam?

MELI MATANATOTO

Suva