The advice comes on the heels of increasing signs of an
impending General Election.
Since 2008, the Elections Department has been sending out
letters to 28,000 public servants, such as education officers,
identifying them as election officials and informing them to attend
training.
According to the Singapore's official elections website, these
people are the "impartial administrators of the election
process."
The election officials will be manning the polling booths on
voting day to facilitate the process. Their duties include the
verification of voters' identities. They will also be around to
explain the voting process should such assistance be required, the
website said.
However election officials cannot offer any advice or assistance
so as not to run the risk of being accused of favouring one
political party over another.
According to reports in The Straits Times, the opposition
forecast that Polling Day could be as early as end-April after the
People's Action Party unveiled its first group of new
candidates.
The General Election is to be held by February next year.
