From Norway, with love

The greatest issue faced by postal voters is to receive the ballot papers on time. The gap between nomination day and polling day is two weeks, and the election Commission only sends out the ballot papers after nomination. It is a huge challenge for postal voters to make their vote count as many of us might only receive our ballots a few days before the election.

Despite various difficulties, we weathered the storm in Norway. social media has been a wonderful platform to connect and organise logistics.

Although it was challenging to gather the ballot papers from different cities or towns, we did our best to connect, communicate on the arrival of the papers, and witness for each other for Borang 2.

some of us travelled from the

North or south for a few hours, by train and flight to oslo, to pass the papers and consolidate them for the flyer, Yvonne, to bring them back home. she was the only Malaysian who flew back. Without her, our ballot papers would not have been able to reach polling.

Another Malaysian flew from sweden to Norway to bring ballot papers with him from sweden. she carried ballot papers for voters from KL, Pahang, Kuantan, Penang, Perak and also other states.

It is clear that electoral reform is much needed for postal voting. We need to have longer periods between nomination and polling, or to allow postal voters to vote online.

TEOH KING MEN Petaling Jaya