The fuss over how the indelible ink used in the 2013 general election could be easily washed off, may have been avoided with a name change, a representative from the Election Commission has suggested. 

"Maybe if we had named it election ink, there would have been no problem.

"It is terminology wrongly chosen by us. For that we apologise," Hasanul Isyraf Naim from the EC’s Election Academy told the audience during a talk addressing criticisms against the EC at Akademi Kepimpinan Hussein last night.

Speaking at the event organised by BN Youth Volunteers, which was uploaded via Facebook Live on the BN Youth's FB page, Hasanul said the ink used to mark the fingers of voters to prevent double voting would last for one day, during the course of normal daily activities.

But he said the ink can be removed if someone were to diligently use chemical or physical means of scrubbing it off.

Only those determined to prove that the ink was not 'permanent' would resort to such measures, he added.