I admit, he sometimes shows himself to possess a semblance of intelligence. Other times? Pure idiocy.
The government has rejected the automatic voter registration system as suggested by the Election Commission as Malaysians cannot be forced to vote, said Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz.
“We can’t force (people to vote) in elections although forcing people is the way of the opposition,” said Nazri, taking a swipe at the Pakatan Rakyat MPs.
“(But) I don’t like to force people. Many of such cases (of coercion) has happened to that side (opposition),” said Nazri.
He argued that the decision to vote or to abstain should be left to eligible Malaysians.
Prior to that, Nazri said that the the government would not be lowering the voting age from 21 to 18, although citizens who are 18 years and above can join political parties.
“Although there are people who say if one is mature enough to get married, he or she should be old enough to vote, this is akin to opening the Pandora’s box,” said the Padang Renggas BN MP.
:| Haiyo.
Automatic voter registration = forcing people to vote?
Don’t so stupidlah, friend. Not in the august house at least, please. Jaga maruah sikit sebagai Menteri.
Mandatory voting is what they practice in countries like Singapore, where it is unlawful not to vote.
Automatic voter registration, someone really must tell this ninny of a Minister, merely means giving all eligible Malaysians the opportunity to vote without first having to register.
Is this the same as dragging people to the polling booths, or throwing them in jail if they refuse to go? Obviously not.
People would still be able to vote or not vote. This merely removes the sometimes troublesome intermediary step.
So stop monkeying around with this ridiculous spin doctoring – we have had enough of BN flers twisting the truth all the time.
For the record, I believe the Pakatan Common Policy Platform supports both automatic voter registration, and a voting age of 18.
As long as BN controls federal however, I hope we will stick it to the man by making we sure we win, even with playing by their corrupt rules. So make sure you, your friends, and your family are all registered!! Post office, 5-10 minutes :)
Aiyooooooo Nat,
BN ruler where can understand one ?
These kinda people only knows themselves is pretty and so right.
They have not seen the mirror.
Ah lim
Hey, that doesn’t make sense at all. No wonder our politicians need to go for further education.
Auto-registration does not mean the people are not given the choice to choose after that. Even if these people had been auto-registered, they still have the choice of going or not going to the polls to vote. Isn’t that still the choice given to the rakyat. What is Nazri talking about.
Just doesn’t jive at all. I think if I will to be in politics, I would make a better Minister (so vote for me lah!!!) to realise this dream.
rite! just go the post office and register as voter… for those who need to change voting centre, need to update ur ic with latest address at JPN and then can change ur centre at post office…
:) come next election, we the rakyat will punish the B-eNd kow-kow… kakaka…
And the sad part is that he is not the only one that puts forward nonsensical arguments in the august house. The govn is just made up of people of such quality. Even the makciks at the wet markets can give much better and solid reasoning at any one time than those fellows. That’s a fact!
It’s such a norm that hearing such nonsense has become part of our normal daily lives. No surprise. If I were to take them seriously, i think i’d have become insane long time ago!
Yeah, Clear Conscience, i’m sure you’d be a better minister at any time if given the chance.
I think each M.P.’s vote in parliament should represent his or her winning number of vote, at the present moment
some M.P.s are only representing a very small percentage of the people. In fact only may be less than 10% of another
M.P. is this democracy ? Or shall I shall pariah, racist and shenanigan Mahathir’s democracy ?
If a man is born with a twisted tongue and a retarded brain, his only talent lies in twisting and turning…with all untruths!
Another dick coming from the kingdom of the blinds, the one eyed is the King.
did you see that in the STAR paper that registration and actual voting are two different things altogether? No, they sycophantic editors just reported verbatim.
Ai ya yayaya this nazi really do and talk kok all the time and he better sick boo boo and take its own $$$ and zip its damm mouth! ai yoyo just look at how this nazi tell lies in US with only JJ give an applause to him Zzzzzz really shy lah these stooges run this country !!!
Ho Ho Ho
Tak-malu!! Scared because he knows most people are anti-govt.
Vote Pakatan for change!!
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Mr. nazri must have been ill advised. Automatic registration of voters whn one turns 21 is the most sensible and responsible act by any government which is not worried of losing in an election. the act of registration is automatic is not akin to forcing. Voting per se is the citizens right, he may not be forced to vote and he is free to vote or not practice his franchise.