EC: 30-day stay condition for outstation voters fair


KUALA LUMPUR: The condition that outstation voters must have returned to Malaysia in the last five years and stayed no fewer than 30 days in the country is reasonable, said EC deputy chairman Datuk Wan Ahmad Wan Omar.

He said the condition was simple and appropriate, and had also been adopted by other Commonwealth countries such as Australia and Canada, while Singapore set it at three months.

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