Prisoners can't vote, EC rebuts PKR

comments     Aidila Razak     Published     Updated

The Election Commission is maintaining its stand that those serving a jail sentence are disqualified as voters.

This despite PKR vice-president N Surendran arguing that the EC wrongly-interpreted the Federal Constitution article on voter disqualification.

“The EC’s stand has not changed,” EC chairperson Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof told Malaysiakini .

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