Are SDP posters being taken down?
Monday, 02 May 2011
Singapore Democrats
A resident at the Yuhua
SMC alerted us to a lorry that was removing SDP posters (pictured)
while leaving the PAP's alone. The vehicle doesn't look like the
one that we are using to mount our posters.
This was not an isolated instance. Another resident called to
report that a white van (license plate No. PA9224) was spotted in
his neighbourhood removing the SDP posters from lamp posts at Bukit
Panjang where Mr Alec Tok is contesting.
A third one informed us that at Woodlands Drive 50, after Admiralty
MRT station, a number if posters were spotted lying on the floor
yesterday as if they were torn down.
Another voter saw an SDP poster at lamp-post beside the bus-stop
opposite Admiralty MRT station cut.
We ask our supporters to be vigilant and inform us of such
incidents and where possible note the number of the vehicle that is
being used.
Poster
stickers
Still on the subject of posters. Each poster that is mounted needs
to have an Elections Department sticker affixed on it. For the
Holland-Bukit Timah GRC the number of stickers issued was 2,000.
This works out to only 500 posters per candidate which seems
extremely low.
As a result we have an excess of posters that cannot be used
because they do not have stickers.
After all the stickers were used and the posters mounted, SDP
posters seem to be greatly out-numbered by the PAP ones.
We will query the Elections Department on this and find out if
there was a discrepancy in the number of stickers being handed out
to parties.
These instances may be why some residents do not see the SDP
posters in your constituency.
In the meantime we hope you have received our booklet about our
candidates which we have distributed to every household in the
constituencies that we are contesting.