One week after the General Elections of 2011, Singapore human rights NGO MARUAH (Working Group for an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism, Singapore) and socio-political community blog The Online Citizen (TOC) jointly presented a post-elections forum at the Post-Museum on 15 May 2011.
The sudden announcement a day earlier that Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong were resigning from the Cabinet only added to the expectant atmosphere at the event.
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MARUAH: Good afternoon Mr Li. Welcome to Singapore. Thank you for agreeing to this interview at such short notice. Can you tell us a little about yourself?
LI FAN: My background is in Political Science – I have two Masters degrees, one from Beijing Normal University and one from Ohio State University. I returned to China in 1989 and things were quite bad at that time so I worked for the government initially. In 1993, I moved from the government to establish a NGO – a think tank – the World and China Institute (www.world-china.org). We aimed to help local governments with elections. We helped organise the first local township election in 1998 in Sichuan in Buyun township. Since then, I have been very interested in election work. After this, we helped local people and local governments across China conduct village elections. Our first election observation project was in China was in 2002 after observing the Cambodian election. We observed a village election in Hubei. We had a three person team with a lawyer, a reporter and myself (an academic). When we arrived in town, we informed the local government that we had “come to observe the elections, whether we were welcome or not”. We did not call ahead. If we did, we knew would not be welcomed. Since we were there, they had no choice and could not stop us from monitoring the local election.
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The recent Singapore General Elections 2011 was electrifying. Emotions ran high and change was in the air.
The dissection has begun.
MARUAH & TOC would like to share perspectives and some analysis on GE2011. We will share the work that we did on the monitoring of mainstream media and the results of the survey on voters about their polling experience. NTU’s Cherian George will give us an overview of GE2011 and Yawning Bread’s Alex Au will tell us what he saw on the ground.
Please do come. Stay engaged. We are part of this flow and we hope you will also share your thoughts.
To RSVP, please email maruahsg@gmail.com with your name and organisation.
Date/Time:
15 May 2011 (Sunday)
4 – 7pm
Venue:
Post-Museum
107 Rowell Road
Singapore 208031
Map
Programme:
GE2011 – An Overview
Associate Professor Cherian George
Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
Nanyang Technological University
Election monitoring process
Associate Professor Paul Ananth Tambyah
Ms Braema Mathi
MARUAH (Working Group for an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism, Singapore)
People’s Perspectives
Mr Alex Au
Yawning Bread
Moderator
Mr Choo Zheng Xi
Former Editor
The Online Citizen
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MARUAH is conducting an election watch project. Part of this project includes monitoring the election coverage by the mainstream media, specifically the Straits Times, TODAY and The New Paper. (We are unable to cover the other languages and other media, e.g. TV and radio, because of resource constraints.)
Our findings are set out below.
You can also download the findings as a PDF file.
Coverage of each party (in column inches)
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MARUAH is conducting an election watch project. Part of this project includes monitoring the election coverage by the mainstream media, specifically the Straits Times, TODAY and The New Paper. (We are unable to cover the other languages and other media, e.g. TV and radio, because of resource constraints.)
Our findings are set out below.
You can also download the findings as a PDF file.
Coverage of each party (in column inches)
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MARUAH is conducting an election watch project. Part of this project includes monitoring the election coverage by the mainstream media, specifically the Straits Times, TODAY and The New Paper. (We are unable to cover the other languages and other media, e.g. TV and radio, because of resource constraints.)
Our findings on Day 8 are set out below.
You can also download the findings as a PDF file.
Coverage of each party (in column inches)
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As part of MARUAH’s election watch project in relation to GE2011, MARUAH seeks to validate that the polling process is indeed conducted in a free and fair manner, with voters feeling secure that their votes are secret.
MARUAH had previously requested the Elections Dept permit MARUAH volunteers access to polling stations for this. As the Elections Dept has to date not responded, MARUAH is now asking for voters’ assistance in conducting this aspect of the project.
Specifically, we are asking all voters to complete an online survey on their experience in the polling stations. The survey should take less than 5 minutes to complete. The survey is also optimised for mobile phones, so that you can complete the survey on your phone immediately after voting!
It is important to read the survey form before going to vote, so that you will know what to look out for in the polling station. You can find the survey form at:
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MARUAH is conducting an election watch project. Part of this project includes monitoring the election coverage by the mainstream media, specifically the Straits Times, TODAY and The New Paper. (We are unable to cover the other languages and other media, e.g. TV and radio, because of resource constraints.)
Our findings on Day 7 are set out below.
You can also download the findings as a PDF file.
Coverage of each party (in column inches)
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MARUAH is conducting an election watch project. Part of this project includes monitoring the election coverage by the mainstream media, specifically the Straits Times, TODAY and The New Paper. (We are unable to cover the other languages and other media, e.g. TV and radio, because of resource constraints.)
Our findings on Day 6 are set out below. Note: there were no negative photos spotted in the 3 newspapers.
Coverage of each party (in column inches)
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MARUAH is conducting an election watch project. Part of this project includes monitoring the election coverage by the mainstream media, specifically the Straits Times, TODAY and The New Paper. (We are unable to cover the other languages and other media, e.g. TV and radio, because of resource constraints.)
Our findings on Day 5 are set out below. Note: there were no negative photos spotted in the 3 newspapers.
Coverage of each party (in column inches)
Positive photos of each party
Neutral photos of each party
Placement of each party in the paper
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