Melaka polls: All campaigning must stop by 11.59pm tonight

JASIN: All candidates, party machinery and supporters contesting the Melaka election must cease campaigning by 11.59pm tonight, including on social media and other online platforms.

Election Commission deputy chairman Dr Azmi Sharom said all parties must respect the stipulated campaign period and refrain from any form of campaigning once the deadline had passed.

"Today is the final day of campaigning. We want to remind all candidates, their teams and supporters that campaigning ends at 11.59pm tonight.

"This means they must not continue campaigning after that," he told reporters while inspecting polling preparations at Dewan Platinum, Politeknik Melaka, for the Merlimau state constituency here today.

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Azmi said the restriction applied to all campaigning activities, including those conducted through Facebook and other online platforms.

A total of 687,697 voters are eligible to cast their ballots in the election, with polling scheduled for tomorrow.

The EC has provided 240 ordinary polling centres with 1,213 streams across the state. They will be open from 8am to 6pm.

During early voting, 9,417, or 94.96 per cent, of the 9,917 eligible voters cast their ballots in person at 31 polling centres, while another 2,614 voted by post.