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• (b) On that date and on the date of the poll he is not subject to any
legal incapacity to vote, and he is a British citizen; and
• Further, the law sets a couple of condition for qualifications with the
Preliminary conditions on the registration process and the second
condition being the safety measures.
• The second set of conditions among other is that
• (a) He was last resident in the United Kingdom within the period
of 15 years ending immediately before the relevant date
• NIEI views that the stated matter would be the major challenge
especially due to our current system of independent candidate
contest that requires the name of the person to be printed in the ballot
paper.
• NIEI therefore propose for overseas voting to be limited to only for the
election of members of Parliament and the similar method can be
used for voters from Sabah and Sarawak residing in Peninsular and
vice versa.