THE discovery last month that five empty ballot boxes used for the 2011 Presidential Election had been left in a school did not indicate any lapse in electoral procedure or breach of the law, Minister for Social and Family Development Chan Chun Sing said in Parliament on Monday.
This is because after the close of polling, ballots are transferred into different boxes which are sealed and escorted to counting centres, and the empty boxes left behind cease to be considered "controlled items," he said in response to a question from Workers' Party MP Pritam Singh. (Aljunied GRC). Full story
