Barack Obama re-elected President

Barack Obama wins election for second term as president - Yahoo.com

Obama takes key battlegrounds to win re-election - cnn.com

Obama Wins New Term as Electoral Advantage Holds - NY Times

Bersih 3.0 update

The post title is not correct, of course. What I'm trying to say is that KL is back to normal after the Bersih rally on Saturday.

Look, no more rally, ma..

The above is a video-grab from a city traffic monitoring CCTV showing the traffic situation downtown in Jalan Raja Chulan near Pavilion, the shopping mall.

Everything is back to normal, the streets all cleaned up and Kuala Lumpur is just like nothing had happened. Aren't we Malaysians just so cool?!

We now wait for the elections. Again, have you registered to vote?

Results of Sarawak Election - Barisan wins 55 seats, Taib sworn in as CM

Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud was sworn in as the Sarawak Chief Minister (to serve his seventh term!), shortly after Barisan Nasional secured a two-thirds majority win in the 10th Sarawak State Election. The final tally of seats saw Barisan winning 55 of the 71 seats contested. DAP won 12, PKR - 3 and Independent - 1.

Sources:
- The Star
- Malaysiakini

Sarawak goes to the Polls today

Sarawak, a resource-rich state on the island of Borneo, East Malaysia, decides on their choice of government today. Some statistics below from The Star:

KUCHING: Polling for Sarawak’s 10th state election started at 8am Saturday.

The 979,796 registered voters in the state will choose from 213 candidates to fill the 71 seats of the State Legislative Assembly.

A total of 1,749 polling centres located in schools, community halls, longhouses and multi-purpose halls have been set up. They will remain opened until 5pm.

The Election Commission said the first official result of the polls is expected to be announced by 8pm and the last by 11pm. Delays would occur in the event of heavy rain, storms or flooding.

The highest number of voters in this election is located in the Pending (N10) constituency which has 29,488 voters.

The smallest number of voters is in Rumah TK Pa’ Berang under the Ba’Kelalan seat with 20 people.

A total of 27 helicopters and two fixed-wing airplanes would be used to facilitate the election process.

Barisan Nasional is facing straight fights in 27 seats, three-cornered fights in 23, four-cornered in 17 and five-way contest in two, with two more facing six-cornered fight.

Opposing Barisan Nasional are PKR in 49 seats, DAP (15), PAS (5), SNAP (26), Parti Cinta Malaysia (6 ) and 41 independent candidates.

Check out The Star's live coverage.


Source: The Star

Have you registered to vote?

There is talk that the next General Election (GE 13) will be early next year. More critical now than ever, your vote is needed if you want to see a change for the better. If you have not registered to vote, registration can be done at any Post Office. Don't wait. Do it today.

If you are already a voter, you may want to check that you are on the electoral roll. This is where you can check online... http://daftarj.spr.gov.my/daftarj/daftarbi.aspx The form will look like the one below.

Exercise your right as a citizen. Register to vote.

Barack Obama, United States' new President

If what I read on Twitter was any indication, Barack Obama would win the US Presidential election hands-down. Everyone I followed on Twitter who told who he voted for, voted for Barack Obama.

"The American people have spoken," said John McCain in his concession speech to his supporters, while Senator Barack Obama said, "there should be no doubt that 'all things are possible."

Now meet United States President-elect, Barack Obama. He inspires historic victory. Obama is to be the first African-American president.

C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S!!!

Change has come to America.