Abdul Rashid: EC stopped recruiting temp workers

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The Election Commission (EC) stopped its recruitment of temporary workers following the allegation by PAS in June that the commission agreed to hire Puteri Umno members to help prepare for the upcoming general election, said its chairperson Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman today.

"This thing was brought up in Parliament in the last sitting...and I directed then that the recruitment be stopped immediately," he said when contacted.

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