ELD apologises after almost 10,000 voters in Tanjong Pagar GRC receive 2 poll cards due to printer's error

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SINGAPORE — The Elections Department (ELD) has apologised after almost 10,000 voters in Tanjong Pagar received two poll cards — most of them with different serial numbers — due to an error by a printing company.

In a statement on Thursday , ELD said that the printer, Toppan, had erroneously mailed out test prints of poll cards together with the correct poll cards.

The agency added that the error had affected a total of 4,803 households — comprising 9,822 voters — from Tanjong Pagar GRC. Toppan is a Japanese global printing company headquartered in Tokyo. The company has multiple offices in Singapore, providing services like IT solutions and producing printed documents for official Government publication.

Source: News Formal (newsformal.com)

 

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