Police, soldiers began postal voting

HULU SELANGOR: The two-day postal voting began today in the Hulu Selangor parliamentary by-election, being conducted at three places designated by the Election Commission (EC).
Selangor EC director Dzulkifli Ab Rahman said military personnel were casting their ballots at the Kuala Kubu Baharu army camp and police personnel, at the Kuala Kubu Baharu district police headquarters and the Kuala Kubu Baharu police training college.

Altogether, there are 799 postal votes, with 170 of them to be cast by military personnel and the rest by the police, he told Bernama, adding that the police had asked for the voting to be held over two days.

"The postal voting will take place from 8am to 5pm," he said.

Dzulkifli said that after the voting, the bags with the postal ballots would be taken to the office of the returning officer under police escort.

"All the postal ballots will be kept by the returning officer, and will be brought to the tallying centre on April 25 (polling day)," he said.

The Hulu Selangor constituency has 64,500 voters, including the 799 postal voters.

The 63,701 ordinary voters will vote on Sunday, between 8am and 5pm at 48 polling centres, many of them schools.

The by-election is a straight fight between P. Kamalanathan of the Barisan Nasional and Zaid Ibrahim of PKR.

It was necessitated by the death of the member of Parliament, Zainal Abidin Ahmad, 71, of PKR, on March 25. - Bernama