Kuala Lumpur: The Election Commission has appealed to family members of registered voters who have died to submit death certificates of their deceased kin to help in the "clean up" of the electoral roll.This is also an issue in Alaska. Given that everything is electronic these days, and much of it online, it would seem the computer folks at the State of Alaska should be able to figure a way to check the death certificates against the voter roles and purge them without asking people to notify them.
The commission said that the updating of the roll was a continuous and ongoing exercise, which required assistance from the public.
Also in the paper was a piece on how people try to get public housing in areas they most desire in Singapore. You have to register with the Straits Times to read it, but you can also read it here.
I realize that in these days of the geographically challenged, not everyone knows where Kuala Lumpur is. So, if you know what country KL is the capital of, please post it in a comment. Your prize will be knowing that you helped others gain knowledge. (The Straits Times is a Singapore Newspaper)
You'd think the state could come up with a way to do that... on the other hand, I continue to be amazed by the lack of time-saving and seemingly common sensical measures not employed by SoA-run entities; for example, UAA, where in order to check out books as a graduate student you have to bring some kind of proof that you're a graduate student (a syllabus, a printout from BlackBoard) because their computers can't "talk" to the University's computers well enough to tell the difference between grads and undergrads.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Kuala Lumpur is the capital of Malaysia, isn't it?
Sorry, the library's computers can't talk to the University's computers.
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