Serious [ Singapore News ] Opposition Supporters Take Note : 30 New Changes To Election Ballot Box & Polling Station

[Hypocrite-The]

accidental or intentional fire on 69% of ballot boxes?

This method much simpler n more effective n cheaper too...no need all the cat n mouse to lose or add ballot boxes etc

 

[Kopi0Kosong]

We are still using BALLOT BOXES?...aren't we suppose to be.....DIGITAL what??

Digital could be worst.

 

[winnipegjets]

Until Election Department is independent of the government, it is a waste of time and money for opposition to participate in election.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

Until Election Department is independent of the government, it is a waste of time and money for opposition to participate in election.

Ok Lor
.. boycott lor. Let pap walkover for ever

 

[Sideswipe]

most countries make changes to the electoral map every 10+years therefore the influence of gerrymandering is prevented for at least 2/3 election terms. in tiny Singapore, the PAP government gerrymanders the electoral map for every election, making things very difficult for the Opposition.

 

[batman1]

Don't be hypocrite PAP ! Better they once and for all redraw the electoral boundary into one Super GRC for Sinkieland.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

Wow!! the pap is prepared

Sounds like the govt is prepare to cheat knowing that the margin is extremely thin for them in the next GE. The ballot box can be lost anytime, anywhere during the ferrying to the counting station. PAP knows which town and stations they will get the less support and most likely prepare for that particular ballot box to go "missing-in-transit". God forbids!

Missing ballot boxes is damn near impossible. More likely it will be replaced.

 

[Kopi0Kosong]

We talk about how smart the country is in the use of technology and yet simple microchip tagging of ballot boxes is not implemented? Stage to Fit and Fix - This is what the present PAP LEEders are good for. Anyway, why is there the need to transport sealed ballot boxes to a central location? Why can't counting be done at the respective voting centres, witnessed by participating candidates? The whole country would be buzzing with interested people...

 

[bobby]

Kind of funny that they put in lost ballot boxes clause..like they expect it to be lost

Exactly right....you would think why on earth can this specifically "lost ballot box" scenario can be brought up at this stage.

It is going to happen in closely fought electorates...another "reserved EP" syndrome to fight TCB again.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

Exactly right....you would think why on earth can this specifically "lost ballot box" scenario can be brought up at this stage.

It is going to happen in closely fought electorates...another "reserved EP" syndrome to fight TCB again.

More likely its a red herring designed to cause distraction from the real issue. getting the ballot box replaced and stuffing the ballot box. That way it will be like the last presidential erection whereby Tony Tan can just catch up with TCB and win the presidency

 

[ToaPehGong]

When any sealed ballot box is lost or destroyed before the ballots can be counted, election officials can abandon the vote count for the affected polling station

meaning ballot boxes in Aljunied GRC might be missing?

 

[Hypocrite-The]

meaning ballot boxes in Aljunied GRC might be missing?

From another perspective,,,with the opposition front by TCB and the expansion of the NCMP scheme. PAP might actually put in effort to ensure a WP win. Lets look at this scenario, if WP looses aljunied. That is 5 WP seats taken away. and these 5 candidates will not take up the NCMP seat as per WP rules. Which means the NCMP seats might have to be given to the Oppo front which also means that CSJ, Lim Tean, TCB might have a chance to enter by the NCMP scheme. Which is die die the pap will never allow to enter into parleement. If they enter and they perform as they say they will, all the pappie ministars etc will be hard pressed to out debate them. At this stage PAP will want a weak and keep quiet Oppo like WP to not mess things up,,,which WP has proved to be the quiet oppo. That is why I am now advocating for WP to lose its seats, they day in the sun is over because they have failed in their duty as an effective opposition. I now prefer Lim Tean and CSJ to be given the chance and hope they perform as expected. If they do, they are worth 10 WP mps anyday

 

[JohnTan]

Are oppies still allowed to harass and intimidate voters within a 20m radius of the polling station?

 

[Hypocrite-The]

Are oppies still allowed to harass and intimidate voters within a 20m radius of the polling station?

Are pap candidates allowed to harass and intimidate voters within a 20m radius of the polling station?


Cheng San Group Representation Constituency
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Jump to navigationJump to search
Not to be confused with Cheng San Single Member Constituency.
Cheng San Group Representation Constituency (Simplified Chinese: 静山集选区;Traditional Chinese: 靜山集選區) is a now defunct Group Representation Constituency in the North-eastern region in Singapore. The GRC consisted of the eastern part of Ang Mo Kio, Jalan Kayu, Seletar Hills, part of Serangoon North, a large part of Hougang, Buangkok, and the whole of Sengkang New Town and Punggol New Town.
Contents

• 1History
  • 1.11997 general election
• 2Members of Parliament
• 3Candidates and results
  • 3.1Elections in 1990s
  • 3.2Elections in 1980s
• 4References
• 5See also

History[edit]
The GRC was formed in 1988, and absorbed the constituencies of Cheng San, Chong Boon and Jalan Kayu. In the 1991 general election, the constituency was enlarged to include the former Punggol ward. For the general election in 1997, parts of the Chong Boon division of the GRC, bounded by Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10, Ang Mo Kio Avenue 3, Central Expressway and Ang Mo Kio Avenue 1, were transferred to Ang Mo Kio GRC. The GRC was an opposition favourite in the 1991 election, and was hotly contested in the 1997 general election between People's Action Party and Workers' Party. The Punggol constituencies were split into Punggol Central, Punggol East and Punggol South as a result of the growing population of Hougang to encourage attacking the population of Sengkang and Punggol which was ready since 1999 and it necessitated the redrawing. Following a hotly contested election in 1997, the GRC was split and subsumed into three GRCs in 2001 general election. The GRCs which absorbed Cheng San GRC were Ang Mo Kio GRC, Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC and Aljunied GRC due to redrawing of electoral districts by the Elections Department.[1]
Due to the unclear separation of power between the Prime Minister's Office and the Elections Department, the Opposition has often criticised the absorption of Cheng San GRC as gerrymandering on the part of the ruling party. Ang Mo Kio GRC and Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC (which were held by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean, respectively) are both 6-member GRCs (and the existing ones as of 2015), making it easier for the Opposition to contest all these constituencies. The two GRCs's anchor ministers, Lee and Teo, only aimed for 84 out of 89 seats to be contested.
1997 general election[edit]
Cheng San GRC became the hotspot constituency during the 1997 General Elections. The People's Action Party team led by the then-Minister for Education Lee Yock Suan, faced the contest by a Workers' Party team led by the then-Secretary-General and former opposition Member of Parliament, Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, and Tang Liang Hong, a senior lawyer.
Having been automatically 're-elected' due to walkovers in their own constituencies, then-Prime Minister of Singapore Goh Chok Tong and his two deputies from the People's Action Party (PAP) campaigned on behalf for the PAP's candidates in the Cheng San GRC. Goh described himself as "a special candidate" of the constituencyand declared that his credibility and reputation as Prime Minister were at stake in the contest. The PAP campaign took on a two-pronged focus. Firstly, the PAP accused Tang of being anti-Christian and a Chinese chauvinist, labelling him a "dangerous man". Secondly, the Prime Minister told Cheng San voters that if they returned PAP candidates to power in the election, they would get a host of benefits. These included access to better transport facilities such as the MRT and LRT, new housing projects, such as Punggol 21, and opportunities to upgrade their HDB apartments and public housing estates. The PAP emphasised that constituencies that failed to return PAP candidates to power would not receive priority in government upgrading programmes and might end up becoming slums.
The Workers' Party's rallies in Cheng San GRC attracted huge crowds. On the eve of Polling Day, 50,000 people attended the Workers' Party rally at Yio Chu Kang Stadium. However, the news coverage of this astounding turnout was disproportionately understated, causing much online criticism of the Straits Times in reporting objectively.
On Polling Day, several top PAP Ministers, including Goh Chok Tong, Tony Tan and Lee Hsien Loong were within the precinct of polling stations in Cheng San GRC, although they were not themselves candidates in the constituency. The Workers Party believed that this violated the Parliamentary Elections Act, as unauthorised personnel are prohibited from polling stations by election law to prevent undue influence and harassment on voters and staff. The Workers' Party's candidates filed police reports,[2] citing the violation of two sections of the Parliamentary Elections Act:

• Section 82(1)(d): "No person shall wait outside any polling station on polling day, except for the purpose of gaining entry to the polling station to cast his vote".
• Section 82(1)(e): "No person shall loiter in any street or public place within a radius of 200 metres of any polling station on polling day."

Their complaints were not prosecuted by the police, on the advice of the Attorney-General Chan Sek Keong.[3] The Attorney-General, in his letter to the Minister of Law, interpreted the statute as being irrelevant to people within the polling station, and that remaining within the polling station itself, as opposed to being within a perimeter of 200 meters from the external walls of the polling station, was not an offence.[4] He added that "the possibility of a person inside a polling station influencing or intimidating voters in the presence of the presiding officer and his officials, the polling agents etc was considered so remote that it was discounted by the Act."[5]
The WP then questioned if the AG was suggesting that it was acceptable for people to enter and loiter on the grounds of the polling station instead of outside the station.[6] Later, the Workers' Party renewed its call for a multi-party Election Commission to ensure fair play in the conduct of Parliamentary elections.
WP lost in Cheng San GRC, obtaining 44,132 votes, which was 45.2% of the valid votes in the constituency of approximately 98,000 voters. Cheng San GRC ceased to exist in the next election and thus was redrawn into several neighbouring constituencies.[7]

 

[JohnTan]

Which means the NCMP seats might have to be given to the Oppo front which also means that CSJ, Lim Tean, TCB might have a chance to enter by the NCMP scheme. Which is die die the pap will never allow to enter into parleement. If they enter and they perform as they say they will, all the pappie ministars etc will be hard pressed to out debate them

Nobody really cares too much about these parliamentary debates. Oppies just want to see PAP get 'burned' in a debate, which in the big picture of things, means nothing. Singapore will continue to operate as normal the next day under the leadership of the great PAP.

I do hope to see all the oppies lose their elected seats in parliament. NCMP, while given the chance to jibber jabber in parliament, are ultimately a joke, because everyone, including themselves, know that voters do not trust them to run a ward, let alone run the country.

 

[Confuseous]

They talk like there have been missing ballot boxes in the past. What was found were discarded EMPTY ballot boxes.
Smelly fish to me.

 

[ToaPehGong]

From another perspective,,,with the opposition front by TCB and the expansion of the NCMP scheme. PAP might actually put in effort to ensure a WP win. Lets look at this scenario, if WP looses aljunied. That is 5 WP seats taken away. and these 5 candidates will not take up the NCMP seat as per WP rules. Which means the NCMP seats might have to be given to the Oppo front which also means that CSJ, Lim Tean, TCB might have a chance to enter by the NCMP scheme. Which is die die the pap will never allow to enter into parleement. If they enter and they perform as they say they will, all the pappie ministars etc will be hard pressed to out debate them. At this stage PAP will want a weak and keep quiet Oppo like WP to not mess things up,,,which WP has proved to be the quiet oppo. That is why I am now advocating for WP to lose its seats, they day in the sun is over because they have failed in their duty as an effective opposition. I now prefer Lim Tean and as CSJ to be given the chance and hope they perform as expected. If they do, they are worth 10 WP mps anyday

As long as CSJ is in the equation, they won't win