State polls: Voting temporarily suspended in Paya Terubong after ballot box found unsealed

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A ballot box in a polling station in Paya Terubong was found to be unsealed and ballot casting for that stream had to be stopped.  A total of 177 ballot papers were already cast into the box when Perikatan Nasional candidate Ooi Ghee Oon discovered the unsealed ballot box in SK Seri Relau.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/49fuxha4  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 A ballot box in a polling station in Payata Rubong was found to be unsealed, and ballot

00:08 casting for that stream had to be stopped.

00:11 A total of 177 ballot papers were already cast into the box when Perikatan Nasional

00:17 candidate Oygion discovered the unsealed ballot box in SK Seriwerlao.

00:23 Sinciu Daily reported that Oygion declared he would not recognize any of the ballots

00:46 in that box as valid votes, and asked the election commission to suspend voting for

00:51 that stream, which was to have 719 voters.

00:55 The voting resumed at 1.26pm.

00:59 Election commission officials are investigating and it is not yet known if the 177 ballot

01:04 papers would be invalidated.

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