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Tomorrow marks a very important date in Malaysian history and Saturday 8th of March 2008 kicks off the 12th general elections day for the country. Politics are boring perhaps to most of the youth in Malaysia. In fact the Election Commission statistics say that last year among Malaysia's 27 million people, about 4.9 million above the voting age of 21 years, 70% of them aged between 21 and 35 haven't registered to vote yet. Around 10.9 million people are registered voters but political researchers estimate that 25 percent of them will not cast their vote this year.

Yes most say that our votes won't make a difference and blah blah blah in many articles all over the internet but what if the 15 million people voted. What if? Fight for your right. Vote. Who do you vote for? What are you voting for? Why are you voting? Simple. Research. Take the initiative to go through manifestos from all parties available in Malaysia. It is important to know in depth about your country. In fact I even know some people of legal voting age asking who the president of Malaysia is?!?! LOL...come on!!! (FYI: Malaysia is a federal constitutional elective monarchy. The federal head of state of Malaysia is the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, commonly referred to as the King of Malaysia. We are politically led by a Prime Minister)

So...Decide for yourself. You make the choice. Make your vote count as a Malaysian. All in all here at skratchboarder.com we would just like to remind youths the importance of voting in general. We are not writing this article in favor of any party but just writing a general reminder and also to update on this historical event. If you haven't registered then make sure you do so for the future general election in 2012.

Here is a resourceful neutral website that has a lot of links with information on our general election this 2008. http://www.mycen.com.my/malaysia/election2008.html

Visit http://www.spr.gov.my

(Sources of this quick article are taken from Malaysiakini.com and Wikipedia.org)