Good people of Malaysia, you may be blissfully oblivious to it, but the BN government does not want you anywhere near a polling booth during the 13th General Elections if they can help it.
Especially, if your sympathy leans even remotely towards Pakatan Rakyat.
The BN government have rejected the proposal for automatic registration. It is amazing how Nazri Aziz tries to spin it as "forcing people to vote" when it merely means removing the intermediary step of registering.
You will be doing them a great favour if you exercise your "right to abstain from voting".
If I was given a ringgit for each time some young punk proudly proclaimed the above, I would be able to buy lunch for the whole of Kuala Lumpur city on a Friday afternoon.
It was cute the first time I heard it. Now it's just old and tiresome. And so uncool.
Are you amongst the 5 million eligible but as yet unregistered to vote? Do you know of someone who can but hasn't yet registered?
Seriously, it doesn't take herculean effort to get to the post office and register yourself. I know, because it only took me 10 minutes.
Register now and get every unregistered voter you know to do the same, if we are to have a chance for change come the 13th General Election.
And when you're done with that, perhaps a month later, you should probably look up this website to check if you've been properly registered.
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