JASIN, Nov 13 — The use of the Optical Character Recognition-Voters Attendance (OCR-VA) system has no direct impact on the secrecy of votes or the time taken by voters to cast their ballots.
Election Commission (EC) deputy chairman Dr Azmi Sharom hoped that the public and all stakeholders would accept the implementation of the system positively as part of ongoing efforts to improve and modernise the country’s voting process.
He said that, based on observations so far, the system is simple, accurate and easy to understand, and did not pose difficulties for election workers in operating it.
“So far, we see that this is a system that our election workers need to get accustomed to, but it’s not that difficult. As far as we know, they don’t find the system too confusing or complicated. It’s quite simple and accurate.
