Overseas, outstation Sabahans 'can become postal voters with EC's nod'

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SABAH 2020 | The Election Commission (EC) has the jurisdiction to allow Sabahans who reside outside the North Borneo state to cast their ballots through postal voting in the forthcoming state election, former EC secretary Kamaruzaman Mohd Noor said. Kamaruzaman, who served as EC secretary between 2004 and 2008, said this could be done by simply expanding the scope of postal voters to Sabahans who live outside their state. He said the EC is empowered to do so under the current electoral regulation and there is no need for the government to amend existing laws or the Federal Constitution. "As a former EC official, I see that this is viable under Clause 3(1)(e) of Elections (Postal Voting) Regulations 2003, where EC can use the existing clause to declare a certain category of (registered) voters as postal voters," he said in a webinar on postal voting in Sabah yesterday. Cl…