URBAN Malays would rather go on a picnic or travel somewhere else than go to the polling station to cast their votes, said Election Commission (EC) chairman Tan Sri Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman.
This was among the excuses they gave for not exercising their voting right, mainstream Malay papers quoted him as saying during a media conference in Kuala Lumpur on Monday.
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