THE government hopes to implement automatic voter registration and voting rights to eligible 18-year-olds by 2021, the Dewan Rakyat was told.
Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Liew Vui Keong said the Election Commission (EC) would take some time to implement it as it involved some four million Malaysians who have yet to register.“
The process is going smoothly and we hope to finalise it by January 2021, ” he said in reply to a supplementary question from Datuk Seri Ahmad Maslan (BN-Pontian), who asked about the measures taken to expedite the move from its initial two-year target.