Elections Dept to beef up resources at polling stations, review time-bands after long queues at GE2020

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ELD to beef up resources at polling stations and review time-bands after long queues at GE2020

SINGAPORE - The Elections Department on Thursday set out several improvements it will make to its processes for future elections to avoid the long queues seen at some polling stations during the recent general election.

The department will increase its pool of reserve election officers, so they can be quickly deployed to polling stations to help handle contingencies such as unforeseen build-ups in queues. If it is not feasible to split a polling station up due to a lack of alternative premises in the area, the larger stations will be better organised and given more resources such as additional manpower and equipment, the ELD said.If the ELD decides to continue allocating time-bands to voters, fewer voters will be allocated to the morning slots, it said.

 

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