I don't. Yeah, I'm still pissed about that.
But I'm smiling, at least on the inside, that 1.2 million (1,222,884, to be precise) Singaporeans, or 56.65% of electors, will --- which is a darned sight more than the 675,306 or 33.15% that got to vote in the last General Elections in 2001. (Numbers crunched based on data available at the Elections Department website.)
If you are one of those 1.2 million who get to exercise your vote, please do the very least and find out a little about whoever's running in your constituency, and make an informed choice come Polling Day (6 May or next Saturday, if you missed the memo on that).
And read the instructions on your voting form so that you don't accidentally spoil your vote.
And don't you dare complain that you have to vote or that you have to do elections duty if you're an elections officer. Take responsibility for the kind of society that you want Singapore to be and do right by it. The remaining 935,820 of us in uncontested constituencies are watching you, enviously.
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6 Comments:
i finally get a chance to vote after all these years and guess what? i'm out of the country. boo :\
but the flatmate's following the GE so closely that i feel as if i'm back in singas!
Well, I don't know anything about this vote... but I just wanted to say I just got around to reading your about me section... It's the fucking BEST!!! I wish I could be there to high-five you.
I had no idea u wanted to vote this much.
Allow me to extend a warm welcome to you on behalf of our constituency.
Hey, we're fellow-constituents now! (as if you didn't already know haha)
I haven't had a chance to vote since I turned 21. And it looks like the trend will continue. :)
i am seriously politically ignorant on a very voluntary basis. Sometimes I really think I need to be more responsible to dig out more political news for the sake of our future. But then again, I dun really like here anyway so what the heck.
I need not vote too. Just turned 21 this yr, so i guess we'll have wait a few more years later.
You are one of the few i know that actually yearn to vote.
hah
Hi, I get to vote this time round and I am volunteering for the WOrkers' party to be a polling agent. (I am 26 this year and I don't believe in being apathetic bodes well for my own future).
I believe those who did not get to vote this time round are able to participate in this elections as polling agents for any party.
A polling agent's role is, in my view, a very neutral one. What one does is to observe the polling activities at the polling stations and to watch out for any irregularities.
I believe that if we in SIngapore believe that we are in a functioning Democracy, we should not pay lip service and whine (apologies to the host) about not being able to vote.
It's ok to volunteer for the ruling party as their polling agent but i reckon they have more than enough volunteers already.
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