PETALING JAYA: The electoral roll will swell by 5.8 million on Sunday following the implementation of Undi18 by the Election Commission (EC). The electoral roll will also be updated on the 16th of every month and gazetted by the EC, instead of the current practice of updating it every three months. “This will represent a huge increase of about 40% in the electoral roll from about 15 million to about 21 million voters.”The Federal Constitution was amended in Parliament in July 2019 to lower the minimum voting age to 18 from the current 21. The Federal Government subsequently gazetted the date for the implementation of Undi18 to be on Dec 15. “They will be automatically registered as voters and gazetted under the electoral roll by the 16th of each month,” the spokesman said.
