Automatic voter registration is unconstitutional, according to Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Azalina Othman Said.

“The suggestion to make voter registration automatic goes against the provision under the Federal Constitution,” she said in a written reply in the last parliamentary sitting.

She was responding to a question by Permatang Pauh MP Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail who asked whether the government plans to implement automatic voter registration and make voting mandatory...