E-voting glitch causes fight, postponement in 8 Kedah PKR divisions


Police were called in to keep the peace after a fracas broke out at the PKR Merbok division voting centre at Cinta Sayang Resort in Sungai Petani.

ALOR SETAR: PKR's electronic voting system is not going well in Kedah as the names of candidates and voters went missing in the voting app after the system hung, leading to a fight and the postponement of voting in eight divisions.

It is learned that a voter in Merbok lost his cool after discovering that the names of certain candidates had gone missing from the e-ballots and alleged that this was an attempt at sabotage.

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