GE2020: ELD apologises, to do thorough review of Polling Day long queues

SINGAPORE — The Elections Department has apologised for causing inconvenience to voters amid long queues at the polling stations on Polling Day last Friday .

“We have listened to the feedback of voters on Polling Day itself and since then, and would like to deeply apologise for the inconvenience caused, especially to our senior voters,” Koh Siong Ling, head of ELD, said in the letter. Did away with wearing disposable glovesLong queues were formed at several polling stations from the moment they were open for voting at 8am on Friday. ELD eventually did away with the requirement to wear disposable gloves while casting ballots, and extended voting hours until 10pm.

“We did away with the need to don disposable gloves since voters would have sanitised their hands a few times,” he wrote in the Straits Times forum letter.

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