Presidential Election 2011

[mummyo]

coolit:

In other countries, voting is not compulsory, it is only so in singapore.

It is NOT compulsory here either. You just don't show up at the polls and your name will be taken off the roll of Electors for the next round and only gets put back on when you re-register yourself as a voter. Eg. If you didn't show up to vote for the GE2011 in May, you won't have to vote this PE2011, GE2016 (if have etc.) and forever after unless you re-register yourself.

[mummyo]

Strparent:

For this PE, on hindsight yes, it happens again. We pushed too hard. We had a chance to settle for a small change to someone like TCB, but a substantial numbe rof us tried to push for MORE too fast with someone without PAP ties. much like we led 1-0, could have accepted it and defended, but some players went for broke to make it 2 or 3, and at the end, they equalise and it ended 1-1. Status quo.

For me personally, TCB is still NO CHANGE. To me, he is the same as TT. I feel that I can't count on either to speak up against their ex-colleagues should the need arises.

[phtthp]

mummyo is right!


for people who are on wheelchair and have problem raising their hands to hold a pen properly to write (suffering from some muscle locomotion related to limbs), they don’t need to vote. Or some sick folks at nursing homes, hospital ward, hospice - don’t have to vote.

[raysusan]

election is over, i hate the result but we need to move on…

i believe now our gayment will try to import tons of new citizens until the next GE.
They knew they gain a lot of votes from them as they can see it from the % of votes they got by ‘those area’

[verykiasu2010]

in 6 years’ time, the PEC may issue 10 COE or totally scrap the COE…learnt from yesterday, better to have as many candidates as possible to split the votes


they still never learnt that unity is strength and thought they are so clever to have been given COE to contest

[phtthp]

why in those days under President Ong Teng Cheong’s time and during President Nathan’s time, we don’t have so many candidates to choose, whereas now got 4 ?

[verykiasu2010]

1amber:

TT & TCB

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anyone recall this? page 39

[verykiasu2010]

verykiasu2010:

Angelight:

Watching the Nomination 'live' on CNA. These are my observations and personal opinions.


TCB - speak with sincerity and dignity, can almost feel his heart for Singapore and the people of spore; stresses he wants to be a unifying figure to bring sporeans together.

TT - speak confidently and assuredly. enough said.

TJS - opens his mouth only and \"offended\" the government already. Say he wants to be the \"checks & balances\" to (quoting him) prevent the government from \"abusing their power\".

TKL - the only one to speak in 4 languages, yes, including tamil when calling for votes. And unlike the other 3, he spoke in Malay first, followed by Tamil, Chinese and English. Strange...seems like he is trying to garner the minority votes. After his speech, he even 'hi-fives' with his team of supporters on stage. Hmmm... abit making light of the serious and dignified PE, if u ask me.

like it or not, only TT and TCB are serious contenders

the other, with due respect to their braveness, will be 'also run'

:stompfeet: :stompfeet:

[verykiasu2010]

verykiasu2010:

insider:

many are more interested in 家事 than 国事。


I going for TCB.

My gut feel of the end results:

TT - 35%
TCB - 32%
TJS - 18%
TKL - 15%

The more candidates the better coz TT has a good 'base' of those who don't read to begin with...

so it is 35% vs 65%, what an indictment

he could win an election but majority did not vote for him

under estimated TJS and over estimated TKL

[verykiasu2010]

verykiasu2010:

sleepy:

TT is highly likely to emerge the winner due to nature of 4 corners fight.


Basically those who pro MIW or familar faces would vote for him. Those not so pro MIW or prefer a check would vote for one of the other three candidates which means votes will be diluted among the other three.

TT only needs to garner 30+ % to win

so is it correct to read that the more COE they issue, the more assured is the victory of the preferred candidate ?

so on one hand, it makes them look good not to make life difficult for COE applicant, and on the other hand, it makes endorsing the preferred candidate so much easier

the COE applicants just fell into their trick

and so it came to pass.... they should have come to read kiasuparents.com, esp TJS and TKL and TKL could have saved $48k plus other expenses