{"id":2219,"date":"2011-11-18T14:31:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T19:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2219"},"modified":"2011-11-18T14:31:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T19:31:49","slug":"undilah-or-malaysians-should-vote-in-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2011\/11\/18\/undilah-or-malaysians-should-vote-in-elections","title":{"rendered":"UNDILAH or Malaysians should vote in elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia does not have compulsory voting for all citizens (like Australia does). It would make absolute sense especially since Malaysia is a democracy, but ever since independence we&#8217;ve only had one ruling coalition. Malaysia is a great country, but it can do with a lot of improvements. Everyone voting will help reboot her.<\/p>\n<p>Pete Teo came up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.undilah.com\/\">UNDILAH<\/a>. That loosely translates to <em>&#8220;vote-lah&#8221;<\/em>. It is an awesome video. Following <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/reg2vote\">@reg2vote<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/reg2vote.com\/\">site<\/a>) will help you see where you can register as a voter. Registering is only half the battle &#8212; going to the polling stations when the time comes is going full circle.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video embedded below. Or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-1hllAhSXLA\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-1hllAhSXLA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20UNDILAH%20or%20Malaysians%20should%20vote%20in%20elections&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F11%2F18%2Fundilah-or-malaysians-should-vote-in-elections&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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It would make absolute sense especially since Malaysia is a democracy, but ever since independence we&#8217;ve only had one ruling coalition. Malaysia is a great country, but it can do with a lot of improvements. Everyone voting will help reboot her. 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