A senior citizen rode a red three-wheeled electric mobility scooter directly into a voting room at SK Merlimau in Jasin and raised an ink-stained finger beside an Election Commission (EC) ballot booth today (14 Nov), during the 16th Melaka State Election.
Photographs published by MalaysiaGazette showed the voter seated on the mobility trike inside the school polling stream after casting a ballot, with the vehicle’s headlight switched on.
Under EC regulations, polling station heads hold the authority to grant ground-floor Stream 1 access and permit mobility aids inside voting rooms for elderly voters and persons with disabilities.
While local councils and election officials have previously deployed buggies and e-scooters to ferry voters from school gates to building entrances—and a 70-year-old voter rode an electric bike to SMK Taman Molek during the Johor state election in July—voters typically transfer to wheelchairs or walk before entering the voting room itself.
