Prepare To Vote: Check Your Registration Status Online

January 14, 2008

One of the short term purposes of this blog is to encourage people to vote in the next general elections. The elections are rumored to be coming soon, probably sometime in March 2008, during the school semester break. Certainly, one of the first steps to get involved in the whole process is to first register to become a voter. If you haven’t, it’s still not too late to do so at your nearest post office. It’s even better if you show up in Putrajaya, because there is proof that you will get on the electoral roll quicker (where normally it would take around 3 months).

If you’re already registered a long time ago, it is always good to check your status, and find out if you’re registered in the right constituency. It also helps for you to check before going to any polling station, in case you go to the wrong one (already happened to my Dad twice). You can check your status here: http://daftarj.spr.gov.my/

To those that just registered or changed their address to vote since 3 months ago, the Elections Commission has just released the 4th quarter 2007 list of new voters and also voters that applied for an address change. You can use this specific page to check if you are already on the electoral roll: http://daftarj.spr.gov.my/rang.asp

If you wanna be doubly sure, you could also check the list of voters in pdf format here: http://www.spr.gov.my/index/pamer_rang.htm

Note: The PDF format of electoral rolls are quite privacy-unfriendly. Extremely dangerous when it falls into a stalker’s hands.

If you already registered, but your name is not in the list yet, why don’t you share with us when you registered and see if it should be in the list. If it’s not, you could actually make an appeal.

Note #2: The EC website is at www.spr.gov.my. It starts off by asking you if you want to access the English site, or the BM site. I suggest using the BM site, since it gets updated more.

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4 Responses to “Prepare To Vote: Check Your Registration Status Online”

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Togo the Dog said:

We tried to register at the local post office but it was ’spr system offline’ for the two times we tried. So we drove to Putrajaya and got it done in two minutes. That was very recent - we’re already on the electoral roll. Yippie.

Klaw: Did you try registering your dog? There’s a chance it might work in Sabah?

January 15, 2008 at 12:17 pm
constant drama said:

Yay!! I’m registered…but these bitches are making me drive all the way to Kapar. Eeeehh…

Klaw: While driving there and going through the tolls to get there, remember the price of tolls will only be going up and remember which government signed those toll agreements, hehe.

January 15, 2008 at 7:22 pm
anais of kiwiland said:

http://www.kln.gov.my/?m_id=8&c_id=102

To all readers of this blog,

This is again a dirty trick to avoid the malaysians living overseas that
are more exposed to how real democracy works from voting.

Even if students abroad are eligible to vote, if you read carefully, only
those that are sponsored by the government to study abraod can vote.

for me as a Malaysian citizen, a working professional in NZ, I will have to
fly back to my hometown to cast a vote. By making it costly and difficult, they are indirectly telling us not to vote - knowing that this category of people will vote against them.

What a stinky trick!!!

please please please help us good malaysian to vote against this government. Even if they might still win in the end (you know why) but they should not win with ‘flying colours’!

thank you!

January 16, 2008 at 8:38 am
Kah Seng said:

The latest voter checking page at the SPR is http://daftarj.spr.gov.my/daftarj/daftar.aspx

Apparently SPR keeps reprogramming this page to stop computer programmers from creating automatic script to read its data to check for SPR errors.

Unfortunantely, the PDF files available at http://www.spr.gov.my/index/pamer_rang.htm is only for the “quarterly changes.” It does not contain info existing voters. It is available only for about 15 days about 2-3 weeks after the end of the quarter.

We have some articles explaining the nature of these electoral roll, quarterly and data:

Electoral Roll Gazetted 2008 Feb 5 - An Overview
http://malvu.blogspot.com/2008/05/electoral-roll-2008-feb-5-overview.html

An intro to SPR’s electoral roll data table
http://malvu.blogspot.com/2008/05/introduction-to-sprs-electoral-roll.html

Supplementary Voter Lists 2008q1 and 2007q4
http://malvu.blogspot.com/2008/04/supplementary-voter-list-2008-first.html

May 15, 2008 at 9:46 pm

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