Overseas polling stations in India, Sri Lanka and Malaysia
Seven other resorts have re-registered enough people to place polling stations.
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Aishath Fareeha Abdulla
The Election Commission (EC) has announced that polling stations will be set up in Sri Lanka, Malaysia and India for the upcoming parliamentary elections.
When the parliamentary elections that were scheduled to be held on March 17 were postponed to April 21, only three countries filed enough registrations to keep ballot boxes abroad, the EC said.
The commission’s Secretary General Hassan Zakariya said earlier that only Sri Lanka and Malaysia had re-registered enough voters to accommodate the parliamentary elections, but enough voters have registered to keep a ballot box in India as well, during the re-registration time that expired by Saturday.
According to the current details:
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Most people re-registered to vote in Malaysia. That’s 580 people
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More than 8,000 people applied to re-register
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Seven other resorts have re-registered enough people to place polling stations
