SINGAPORE - The Elections Department on Monday said it will conduct a thorough review of what went wrong on Polling Day last Friday that slowed down the voting process.
Head of ELD Koh Siong Ling was responding to a forum letter published on Monday in The Straits Times. The writer, Mr Dennis Tan Seow Koon, said that he and his 89-year-old mother took about an hour to cast their votes at Jing Shan Primary School after they arrived there at about 9.30am.Mr Koh wrote:"We will conduct a thorough review to understand what went wrong and why they happened, especially at some polling stations.
But such measures contributed to long queues at several stations, including Palm View Primary School in Sengkang, the Singapore University of Technology and Design and in Jurong East Street 32. The queue situation did improve subsequently, he added, and 70 per cent of polling stations had queues of less than 20 voters by 2pm.
"We will definitely pay special attention to the needs of senior voters and make their voting experience a smooth and comfortable one," he added.
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