100 Malaysians voters fm China fly back to vote

BERSIH SHANGHAI PRESS STATEMENT
03RD APRIL 2013
100 MALAYSIANS VOTERS FROM CHINA TO GO BACK TO VOTE

Bersih Shanghai launches the “Go Back To Vote Campaign” on 8 March, offering RMB500 air fare subsidy for Malaysians registered voters residing in China.

The campaign was kicked off with an initial donated fund of RMB15,000 sufficiently for 30 persons and later top up to RMB33,000 following an overwhelming response of 66 applicants in just few days.

Following the dissolution of Parliament, Bersih Shanghai announces today that we now successfully raised a further RMB17,000 in order to subsidise 100 Malaysians registered voters from China to Go Back To Vote!

Bersih Shanghai emphasize that the subsidy is for those in genuine need to fly back to vote for GE13, who actually well-off financially should not apply, allowing us to give the financial assistance only to those in genuine need.

Bersih Shanghai launches the campaign to create awareness among the overseas Malaysians on the importance of General Election where it is one of the most decisive institutions deciding whether a Nation is growing prosperous or fail, it will decide the fate of our country and affecting all level of people.

As such, we urge overseas Malaysians voters all over the World, not only those residing in China, must Go Back To Vote this time.

COMMENTS ON EC

Bersih Shanghai is disappointed that SPR couldn’t adopt the same standard vote counting procedures at the overseas polling stations to ensure casted votes are genuinely counted in overseas, in order to avoid the risk of being replaced during the transportation to Putrajaya and the respective constituencies.

According to the Federal Constitution, Article 114 (2), “In appointing members of the Election Commission the Yang di- Pertuan Agong shall have regard to the importance of securing an Election Commission which enjoys public confidence”, the poor response of only about 5000 applicants for the overseas postal vote among the 1 million Malaysian citizens living and working overseas, proving that the current EC has lost the public confident – at least among the overseas Malaysians on their capability in organizing a proper overseas voting.

百名在中国居留的马来西亚注册选民回国投票

上海净选盟于3 月8 号推展“回国投票”运动，提供人民币500 元机票补贴予在中国居留的马来西亚注册选民。该运动初步筹得人民币15,000 的赞助而得以开展，补贴30 位马来西亚选民的机票；随着数天内反应热烈而收到66 位选民的申请而增加赞助金额到人民币33,000。

随着国会解散，上海净选盟今天宣布，我们已经成功筹获另外RMB17,000 的赞助以补贴共100 名在中国居留的马来西亚注册选民回国投票！

上海净选盟强调该项补贴是提供给确实需要的选民以飞回国参与第13 届大选，财务宽裕人士不应该申请，以便我们能够把该财务援助只提供给真正需要的人士。

上海净选盟推展该活动旨在唤醒海外马来西亚人对大选重要性的认识，我们相信大选是其中一个最为决定性的因素和体制已决定一个国家是否繁荣成长还是衰败，它会决定我们国家的命运并影响到各个阶层的人民。

有鉴于此，我们呼吁全世界所有的海外马来西亚选民，不仅仅是在中国居留的选民，本次大选必须回国投票。

对选委会的批评
上海净选盟对于选委会无法在海外投票站实行同样的标准计票程序感到失望；该程序是为了确保投选的选票在海外投票站就必须被真实的计算，以避免选票在运送回马来西亚选委会和各别选区的过程中曝露在被调换的风险中。

根据联邦宪法第114 条第2 节，“最高元首在委任选举委员会委员时，必须考虑到选委会能够获得公众信任的重要性”；而目前选委会仅仅收到1 百万马来西亚海外选民中的约5 千份申请，证明了公众（至少是海外选民）对现有的选委会是否能够良好执行海外选举的能力已经失去了信心。

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