Elections Dept : 1,400 premises for polling & vote counting
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Elections Dept identifies 1,400 premises for polling & vote counting
By S Ramesh | Posted: 07 June 2010 1935 hrsSINGAPORE : Singapore's Elections Department is looking at some 1,400 premises islandwide for use as polling and counting centres for the next general election and Presidential Election.
Responding to MediaCorp, a spokesman said the department will use mainly community centres, HDB void decks and schools as polling stations.
Some government buildings have also been earmarked for such use. They include the Ministry of Manpower Building, URA Building and Institutes of Technical Education (ITEs).
Meanwhile, nearly 21,500 public officers have been trained as election officers thus far.
The spokesman said 1,000 have been trained as assistant returning officers, 16,500 as presiding officers and 4,000 as counting assistants.
Singapore's next general election is due by February 2012, while the Presidential Election is due by August next year.
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Election coming.
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There's rumors that it'll be in Dec this year......