MELAKA, Nov 14 — A total of 240 ordinary polling centres, with 1,213 polling streams, for the 16th Melaka state election opened simultaneously at 8am today, allowing voters cast their ballots and elect a state government for the next term.
The Election Commission (EC) said a total of 675,166 ordinary voters were eligible to cast their ballots to elect representatives for the 28 state constituencies, with voter turnout expected to reach 70 per cent.
Polling today is scheduled to continue until 6pm, following the end of the 14-day campaigning period at 11.59pm last night.
Overall, a total of 687,697 registered voters are eligible to vote in this election, including 12,531 military personnel, their spouses and police personnel who had cast their ballots during early voting on Tuesday.
