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Process is transparent and secured with safeguards, Teo Chee Hean tells forum
By Jeremy Au Yong

THE Singapore electoral system came under scrutiny at a youth dialogue yesterday, as participants quizzed Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean and other officials on the finer points of the process.

Questions flew thick and fast, with many centred on the neutrality of civil servants who serve as election officials.

Responding, Mr Teo assured the 200 young people at the two-hour session that Singapore had a ‘high integrity system’.

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SINGAPORE has been studying electronic voting but has no plans to introduce it yet, said the Elections Department yesterday.

It was responding to recent reports in the Indian media which said Singapore was one of several countries to have shown an interest in buying electronic voting machines from Indian company Bharat Electronics.

The department told The Straits Times it had studied the electronic voting systems used in the elections of some countries since 2000.

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