KUALA LUMPUR, May 8 — Bersih 2.0 wants the Election Commission (EC) to explain the sharp rise in voter turnout at the Sarawak elections yesterday, noting that it had gone from 52 per cent at 4pm to the final 70.1 per cent when polling closed at 5pm.
The polls watchdog’s chairman Maria Chin Abdullah said the EC should respond to the odd jump, according to Malaysiakini.
“There is a big discrepancy here – it was not (just) a five to six per cent jump,” she was quoted saying in the news portal.
As at 4pm yesterday, voter turnout of the 11th state election looked abnormally low with reports from EC stating that just 52 per cent of those eligible to cast their ballots in the 80 seats contested had turned up.
At that point, it was believed that the figure would be the lowest recorded in the state. Read more