SINGAPORE - From nuns and nursing home residents, to a hospital patient who came with his leg in a cast, voters have been turning up at 1,264 polling centres on Polling Day. As at noon, 1,406,182 Singaporeans - or about 52 per cent of the total number of eligible electors - have cast their votes in the first four hours...
SINGAPORE - From nuns and nursing home residents, to a hospital patient who came with his leg in a cast, voters have been turning up at 1,264 polling centres on Polling Day.
He had suffered a knee fracture but despite this, he voted accompanied by his wife, then returned to the hospital. Madam Neo, who is in her 50s, said: "The machines took very long to scan my NRIC, and there was a long queue because there were only two machines. We haven't eaten breakfast yet."He was the third person in the queue at a pavilion in front of Block 63 Lorong 5 Toa Payoh when he arrived at about 7am.
Madam Lee Dan Lin, 75, who cast her vote at the Society for the Aged Sick in Hougang Avenue 1, said voting on-site was very convenient as compared to going to polling stations.
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