New Overseas Polling Station in Dubai; ALL POLLING DISTRICT BOUNDARIES CHANGED

[Sammyboy RSS Feed]

An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:

Press release today: http://www.mfa.gov.sg/content/mfa/ov...nal-overs.html

"Inspection of Revised Registers of Electors and Additional Overseas Polling Station in Dubai
ELECTION DEPARTMENT'S PRESS RELEASE

INSPECTION OF REVISED REGISTERS OF ELECTORS AND ADDITIONAL OVERSEAS POLLING STATION IN DUBAI

Inspection of revised registers of electors

The registers of electors have been revised and are open for public inspection from 24 Feb 2015 to 9 Mar 2015. The revised registers will contain the names of all qualified electors [1] as of 1 Feb 2015. The revision is to bring the registers up to date.

2 Singapore Citizens may check their particulars in the registers:

(a) Online at the Elections Department website (http://www.eld.gov.sg);
(b) At community centres/clubs [2] (with NRIC/passport);
(c) At Singapore overseas missions that serve as overseas registration centres (with NRIC/passport);
and
(d) At the Elections Department (with NRIC/passport).

3 The addresses of the community centres/clubs and overseas registration centres are listed in Annexes A and B. The Elections Department is located at 11 Prinsep Link Singapore 187949.

4 During the inspection period, a person may:

(a) Submit a claim to include his name (if it has been omitted) or update his particulars (i.e. name,
gender and NRIC address) in the registers; and

(b) Submit an objection to remove a name from the revised register of electors that contains his name.

5 Claims and objections may be submitted online (via SingPass) at the Elections Department website, or in person at community centres/clubs, Singapore overseas missions that serve as overseas registration centres and the Elections Department.

Additional overseas polling station in Dubai

6 The Consulate-General of the Republic of Singapore in the United Arab Emirates (Dubai) has been designated as an overseas polling station for future elections. This is in addition to the 9 overseas polling stations at Singapore’s overseas missions in New York, Washington DC, San Francisco, London, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Canberra. These overseas missions also serve as overseas registration centres.

7 Dubai offers accessibility and connectivity to other countries in the Middle East region. The overseas polling station and registration centre in Dubai will facilitate overseas voting and registration for overseas Singaporeans in the Middle East region, e.g. registration of overseas electors, checking of personal particulars in the registers of electors and application for restoration of names to the registers of electors.

Restoration of name to registers

8 Persons whose names were removed from the registers of electors for failing to vote at a previous election (known as non-voters) may apply to have their names restored to the registers, so that they can vote at future elections. They are encouraged to apply early to restore their names to the registers via the abovementioned channels as applications will close with the issuance of the Writ of Election.

Registration as overseas elector

9 Overseas Singaporeans, whose names are listed in the registers of electors and have resided in Singapore for an aggregate of at least 30 days during the 3-year period between 1 Feb 2012 and 31 Jan 2015, may apply to register as overseas electors to vote at one of the designated overseas polling stations in future elections.

10 With the revision of the registers of electors, overseas Singaporeans who had registered earlier as overseas electors will need to re-register if they meet the qualifying criteria as of 1 Feb 2015 and wish to remain as overseas electors. Overseas Singaporeans are encouraged to register early via the abovementioned channels.

11 Applications for registration of overseas electors will close once the Writ of Election is issued. Re-registration as an overseas elector is required with each revision of the registers.


ISSUED BY
ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT
PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE

23 Feb 2015

[1] Qualification as an elector: A person must be a Singapore Citizen and 21 years old and above as of 1 Feb 2015, and not disqualified as an elector under any written law. In addition, in order that the person’s name can be entered or retained in a register, the person must have a Singapore residential address on his NRIC as of 1 Feb 2015. If the person is residing overseas and has changed his NRIC address to an overseas address, he must have a contact address in Singapore that he has registered with the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) as of 1 Feb 2015.

[2] Singapore citizens may check their particulars in the revised registers at community centres/clubs during the following hours: 6pm – 9pm (weekdays) and 3pm – 7pm (Saturdays and Sundays). "


http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapo...en-inspection:

"It also announced a new overseas polling station in Dubai and, in a separate notice in the electronic version of the Government Gazette, said the boundaries of polling districts have been changed. -

Yesterday, the ELD also announced changes made to the boundaries of polling districts.

A 100-page notice in the electronic Government Gazette listed the 27 electoral divisions - from Aljunied to Yuhua - and the number of polling districts in each. Pasir Ris-Punggol is the largest with 72, and Potong Pasir the smallest with five.

Changes to polling districts are made to ensure no polling station handles too many or too few voters. Similar changes were last made a year ago, after a revision of the voter rolls, also in February.

Polling districts are sub-units within constituencies. But new constituency boundaries are decided only when the Electoral Boundaries Review Commission meets. Its convening is a key step on the road to an election being called. In 2006 and 2011, it issued its boundaries report about four months after it convened.

The polls were held in May in both those years.

http://www.eld.gov.sg/gazette/G_RE20...s.pdf#zoom=100

- See more at: http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapo....7vg8fqoU.dpuf

See more at: http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapo....7vg8fqoU.dpuf


Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com.