The Elections Department (ELD) has confirmed police are probing an election poll result published by Singapore's largest daily broadsheet, The Straits Times earlier this week.
“In response to media queries about the poll on the Punggol East By-Election published in the Straits Times on 10 Jan 2013, the case is currently being looked into by the Police,” said a spokesman for the ELD in a statement to Yahoo! Singapore on Sunday evening.
The ST article published on the said date was headlined, "ST poll: More rooting for PAP" and gave information detailing which party some 50 residents were planning to vote for.
According to the Parliamentary Elections Act, no person is allowed to publish exit polls between the time that the writ for an election is called until the close of Polling Day. The article was published on Thursday,a day after President Tony Tan had issued a writ for a by-election to be held at the end of this month. Full story
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