The SPR website was disrupted immediately after the PM announced the dissolution of parliament
KUALA LUMPUR: The official website portal of the Election Commission (SPR) experienced disruption or disruption immediately after the announcement of the dissolution of Parliament by the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.
Based on Astro AWANI ‘s survey as of 4.24pm on the website, it only displays error notices ‘502 Bad Gateway’ and ‘The Page is Not Working’.
In fact, the Electoral Register Review link (MySemak SPR) also displayed the same notice since the announcement of the dissolution of Parliament at 3pm yesterday but it was restored at 4.30pm.
The situation is believed to occur due to the high amount of traffic to access the site to check the voter register to check the respective polling areas.
The latest registered voters gazetted by the Malaysian Election Commission (SPR) based on the May 2022 Supplementary Voter Register on June 16, totaled 21,113,234 people.
Of that number, a total of 1,141,749 people or 5.4 percent were voters aged 18 to 20 years, while the remaining 19,971,485 people or 94.6 percent were voters aged 21 and above.
Following the enforcement of the voter age limit from 21 years to 18 years on 15 December 2021, there has been a significant increase in the number of voters of 5.8 million people of which 1.2 million people are comprised of young people aged 18 to 20 years.
source – Afiezy Azaman
