Election Commission secretary Wan Ahmad Wan Omar said today that the commission has registered 104,000 new voters within the last half of 2002 and the rolls will be gazetted o­n Feb 24.

He said the new registrations brought the number of registered voters to over 10 million nationwide, as compared to some 9.9 million as of Dec 31, 2001.

Seventy-five per cent of the new registrations were made at Pos Malaysia's counters, according to a Bernama report.

."This shows that the voter registration exercise held through Pos Malaysia counters and mobile EC counters are running smoothly and successful .