New election laws allow postal voting for overseas S’poreans, polling stations for nursing homes
SINGAPORE — Singaporeans living overseas will be able to vote by post in the upcoming presidential election, after Parliament passed laws on Monday to ease voting for them and seniors in nursing homes here.
Before the changes, such voters had to travel to physical polling stations in specified places to vote, a situation that resulted in some Singaporeans being unable to vote when Covid-19 travel restrictions set in across the globe in 2020. This will involve 25 to 30 nursing homes and reach out to over 2,000 voters, about two-thirds of registered voters currently residing in nursing homes, he said.
The new laws make any boosting, sharing, resharing or reposting of online election advertising subject to the same requirements as any primary advertising. WP MPs abstained from voting on the Presidential Elections Bill, given the party’s long-held objection to the office of the elected presidency in favour of its return to an appointed, ceremonial position.
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