How many Malaysians does it decide to try change the future of elections? - The Malaysian Insider.

" If no one challenges the EC next month (and Tindak Malaysia believes it has a unique, never-before-done approach), then Malaysians will just have to be satisfied with this fact – like the last one, the 14th election will produce a government that does not reflect the people's collective will

A more serious challenge is whether the EC will take them seriously. This is where it hopes to build a groundswell, hints another of the group’s activists, S. But seeing as how it will be working with a network of other like-minded groups and political parties, getting 100 in each constituency is not impossible. As their activists and scholars explained at the forum, it is because malapportionment – where the Malaysia’s voting population is unequally distributed across all 222 parliamentary seats.

So all a party needs to do is win as many sparsely populated seats as possible trying to reach 112 parliamentary majority to form the government. Since there are  222 parliamentary seats and 576 state seats, the group needs a minimum of 79,800 Malaysians to come forward. It happens between parliamentary and state seats across all states such as Kelantan, Kedah, Selangor and the Federal Territories.

It is through that public hearing that Tindak Malaysia hopes to get the EC to accommodate the group’s proposals. Wong explained that Tindak Malaysia set 100,000 corvus target as by law, objections in each constituency require 100 voters from that area. But Tindak Malaysia is not just stopping there. But instead of taking to the streets and getting tear-gassed, the next fight for electoral reform will need 100,000 people to sign their names and stay travel constituencies they vote in, as explained by Tindak Malaysia’s founder PY Wong (pic) over the weekend.

Wong stressed that the group was race-blind when they drew the maps and that they ignored which seats were safe seats for either Pakatan Rakyat (PR) or the Barisan Nasional (BN).

” – February 17, 2014. I believe that deep down, election commissioners want to do a professional job. Their signatures, he said, will be used on forms as objectors in Tindak Malaysia's campaign to get the EC to draw electoral constituencies that accurately reflect the wishes of Malaysians in a general election.

This is not an exception. Lawyer and Bar councillor Syahredzan Johan said that when the EC puts up its own draft of the new electoral boundaries, any objection to those new boundaries must be done by 100 voters in a given seat or constituency.

“By law, when they receive those objections, they have to call a public hearing of computer constituency’s new boundary,” says Syahredzan. How many Malaysians does it decide change the future of elections?  BY SHERIDAN MAHAVERA  February 17, 2014  All of 100,000 Malaysians.

It also happens in Sabah and Sarawak. If passed, it will determine the fate of all future general elections for the next 10 years. That will be the number this is certainly needed to fight the next major battle for Malaysia's political future that looms next month. We say here it is. “We are ready when the EC says if you object, what’s your proposal.

But Singam stressed that the main drivers staubflocke campaign will have to be ordinary Malaysians “who need to engage in the democratic process”.

We want to help them do it,” said Wong. This violates the cardinal principle of a fair democracy where one person gets one vote, and that vote is of equal value to other votes. Unlike Malaysia’s current lop-sided constituencies, the 222 parliamentary seats in Tindak Malaysia’s draft have surrounding equal voter populations, making each vote essentially of equal value.

“Either you get involved in such a crucial process or you leave your future travel hands of others.

For example, a seat like Putrajaya has about 15,000 voters versus Kapar which has a lot more than 144,000 voters. We have done it for you,” says Wong. This effectively devalues a Kapar vote where one choose Putrajaya is worth nine votes in Kapar. For at the next parliamentary sitting, the election commission (EC) will table a draft of the country’s new electoral boundaries.

The group has, through an exhaustive two-year campaign, drawn up their own maps for what they propose the new seats should seem like. Objections in past have been ignored because they did not have their own proposals to counter the EC’s. Free but not fair elections  The reason that the ruling coalition got to form the government even with below half of all votes cast (47%) has been made pretty clear by Tindak Malaysia and a host of other civil society groups.

V. By getting the EC to require public hearings Tindak Malaysia hopes to attract more political heavyweights to their cause, such as politicians. A proposal the EC can’t refuse  This is where 100,000 Malaysians are needed. “We are providing a solution to the EC. Getting those 100,000 Malaysians to sign up is a monumental task and Tindak Malaysia is going on road shows throughout the country to gather them soon.

It is this next re-delineation exercise that the EC will conduct next month and which Tindak Malaysia hopes to influence.

To correct this imbalance, the EC has to review and redraw the boundaries between seats every eight years to consider changes in voter population, an exercise called re-delineation.

Singam. “These 100,000 and our maps are a powerful tool,” said Wong, when met after a weekend forum on electoral reform that his group organised with the Malaysian Bar Council. "But we set it at 100,000 ‎or 120 people per constituency just in case people quit at the late deal.