Some public servants received their e-mail appointment as early as Feb 29 and as recently as March 8.
SINGAPORE - About 50,000 public servants are being appointed as election officials, the Elections Department said on March 8.
Checks by The Straits Times showed that staff from various ministries and statutory boards, such as the Ministry of Law, Ministry of Communications and Information and National Parks Board, and school teachers had over the past week been notified of upcoming election duties. A large number will become presiding officers, who are stationed at polling stations to usher and register voters.
For the 2020 General Election, officers were notified of their election duties in July 2018, about 24 months before Singaporeans went to the polls. A veteran public servant who was deployed in the 2023 Presidential Election and 2015 General Election recounted how her training in the lead-up to the presidential election took place entirely online, and consisted of a long deck of slides and videos detailing the different roles and responsibilities of officials.
About 20,000 public servants were called up ahead of the 2006 General Election. For the one in 2011, about 28,000 were called up. Some 30,000 public servants were notified for the general elections in 2015 and 2020.a $1.9 billion boost to the Assurance Package.