Why you don't have to worry about secrecy of votes? Here's the most intelligent and most non-technical answer my wise friend Koh Wee Sun has got to offer:
If BN loses, it would have no power to persecute you.
If BN wins, it would have no way and time to open the ballot boxes to examine.
Think for yourself, if you are the BN, would you open tens of thousands of ballot boxes and count hundreds of ballots in them, one by one against the numbers, to see who has voted whom? It really does not make sense!
my answer - they did it many times before, nothing to prevent them form doing it again...
ReplyDeleteOn contrary, its easy to do that, what it takes is just access to where the ballot box are kept.. and who hold THAT key?
I am surprised at the quick response to this post. I thought of adding my comment on this but you beat me to it.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I believe EC does analyses (for themselves or instructed by BN) during lull periods (between GEs). Instructions would include all the dirty tricks spotted by NGOs and the opposition: like changing address without knowledge of voters (incl. myself), and more recently, eligible citizens overseas registered without their doing, and lots more serious work like Project IC in Sabah before.
But then again, what Chin Huat suggested makes sense because if BN lost, they can't do anything to you; if they won, they don't have to... until nearing the next GE.
I have friends who are retired teachers and civil servants who are still afraid to even reveal their names (eg. when writing complaints to newspapers) even when they are furious over certain actions by BN. This attitude should change because so many of our opposition leaders have sacrificed their personal safety and that of their families; sidelined for jobs, promotions and business opportunities; over the years. If citizens still refuse to speak out and stand up and be counted, we deserved the crappy government we had over the years and many more years to come.