Elections during Covid-19: Reforms can cure ailing democracy

The poor voter turnout in the Malacca (65.85 percent) and Sarawak (60.67 percent) state elections last year amid the Covid-19 pandemic underscored the urgent need to implement electoral reforms.

These reforms would make casting the ballot easier for the coming general election, which is expected to be held within the next two years.

Now with the dissolution of the Johor state assembly, the reforms are much more urgently needed.

Although the authorities implemented health safeguards during the past elections, the administration of the polls, however, compromised...