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'Voters not entitled to know how EC decided on redelineation'

The Court of Appeal today ruled that voters cannot get information from the Election Commission over how it arrived on the process of redelineation.

In an unanimous decision, the appellate court in Putrajaya also ruled that lawyer and activist Haris Ibrahim had not pleaded how his rights would be infringed by the EC's decision.

Justice Zamani A Rahim who wrote the judgment said the absence of federal legislation regarding freedom of information compared to in India and Canada also resulted in such information cannot be given.

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