Register Yourself as a Voter Today
Do You Know There Are About 4.3 Million Eligible But Still Unregistered Malaysian Voters ?
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Have You Registered As A Voter Yet?
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Is Your Name Still In The Electoral List?
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Every Malaysian is eligible to register as a voter when they reached the age of 21.
You should know your right to vote and choose the government.
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Undilah – English (Namewee Afdlin Shauki Kuli Pete Teo)
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Many political parties are racing to use the year-long registration process to win the hearts and minds of new voters.
According to the Election Commission (EC), Umno registered the highest number of new voters at 24,818, followed by DAP with 17,756 and PAS with 16,987, last year.
Register as a voter TODAY in order to make your voice count!
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Your Vote Counts
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NEVER miss the boat for the next General Election.
Do your patriotic duty as a Malaysian and be aware of community issues, national issues, or what is happening now
Be the Change Agents for this country!
Be a rightful citizen now
Together we can change the country for better!
Voting, unlike riots or rallies, should be a better way to Influence Changes in this country.
Check your voter registration status by visiting Election Commission of Malaysia’s website
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Don’t just complain, register to vote!
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HOW TO REGISTER as A VOTER?
1) All they have to do is bring along their MyKad.
2) Go to Election Commission of Malaysia Headquarters OR State Election Offices OR All Post Offices with computer facilities in the country and register as a voter.
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Change Cannot Happen By Itself.
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We Need To Make That Change.
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RPK SIHRG Q and A – The Role of Voters
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Two million target in NGO voter registration plan
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KUALA LUMPUR, May 5 — An organisation called Growing Emerging Leaders (GEL), which organised the Voice Your Choice campaign, aims to register two million new voters by the end of the year.
Its coordinator John Son Oei said GEL hoped to achieve the target and that those who register during their campaign would have a choice at elections.
“We tell them how important it is to be a voter. If they do not register to become voters, it means they do not have a choice at all. If they register, at the end of the day…if they don’t want to vote, it’s up to them.
“But at least they have a choice to vote or not to vote,” he told a press conference here today.
Another GEL coordinator, Jasmine Ng, said GEL also cooperated with other organisations to achieve the two million-voter target, citing the Election Commission (EC), the Chinese Assembly Hall and an organisation called Saya Anak Bangsa Malaysia.
She said the EC always supported their campaign to get people to register as voters. “Even when we contacted them (EC) two weeks before the campaign, they never said no,” she added.
According to her, the reasons for many Malaysians still having not registered as voters was their not knowing where to register or their “tidak apa” (lackadaisical) attitude like saying, “it’s ok, still a long way to go before the next election”.
For more information on the campaign, visit dosomethingepic.net
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Church helps to register voters
THE Glad Tidings Assembly of God (Petaling Jaya), which is known for its community services and help for the poor, organised a voter registration drive during the recent Labour Day weekend.
“The objective of the drive was to encourage our members to be good citizens.
“We also wanted to help them to be aware of their rights and responsibilities to vote and support their country when an election is called for,” Glad Tidings Main Pastor Rev Dr Vincent Leoh said.
“According to the Election Commission, 4.39 million (or 28% of 15.47 million above 21) have yet to register as voters.
“We want to help reduce that number. It is our hope that Glad Tidings will become known as an organisation that cares for the country and serves the community,” he added.
In his message on Labour Day weekend services, Rev Leoh encouraged all Christians to “Love God and Love the Nation” through engagement, not escape, and involvement, not isolation.
Glad Tidings invited, through Saya Anak Bangsa Malaysia, the Election Commission to help register its members as voters by setting up counters at the church premises.
A total of 213 members, from young adults to senior citizens, took the opportunity to be a part of the effort.
With the encouraging response, Rev Leoh hopes to bring in similar activities to spur the church members and community on to build, bless, unite and strengthen the nation.
fr:thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2010/5/11/central/6215345&sec=central
Time to woo young voters
> Reports by SYED AZHAR and IAN MCINTYRE > Pictures by SAZUKI EMBONG
KOTA BARU: PAS must focus on wooing the four million youths who have yet to register as voters because it can no longer depend on its traditional rural base for votes, said its national elections director Datuk Abdul Halim Abdul Rahman.
“Enticing the young to vote for PAS is both a political and tactical strategy for the party,” said Abdul Halim, who is a former deputy mentri besar of Kelantan.
He said that with the dwindling traditional voter base due to ageing and other factors, the party must adapt to current challenges.
Abdul Halim revealed that PAS lost 6% of its Malay and 10% of its Indian votes during the Hulu Selangor parliamentary by-election which was won by Barisan Nasional.
At the Manek Urai state by-election here last year, PAS lost about 6.3% of its overall voters, he added.
“The lack of support in certain constituencies can be overcome if PAS is willing to woo the young voters,” he added.
He said that the entire PAS machinery – from the grassroots to the top leaders – must work hard to achieve Pakatan Rakyat’s goal of forming the Federal Government in the next general election.
“If the grassroots adopt all the party’s political and tactical strategies, Pakatan can achieve this goal,” he said.
Dewan Ulama vice-president Datuk Dr Mahfudz Mohamad said the wing would also be spending time and resources to woo young ulama
and religious scholars.
He said the wing was adopting the concept of “PAS for all”, especially when it was now also opening its doors to female ulama.
PAS information chief Idris Ahmad said the party would ensure that information and political news reached the people in rural areas so that they could better understand the scandals affecting Barisan.
He said it would also use social networking sites to reach out to the young, middle class and learned sections of society.
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Political parties race to register new and young voters
KUALA LUMPUR: With more than four million eligible voters yet to be registered, political parties are now in a hurry to get them on the electoral rolls ahead of the next general election due in 2013.
Most of them are young Malaysians who have reached 21 years and are eligible to become voters but many have not done so as they usually do not bother to register.
Malaysia currently has 11 million registered voters out of a population of about 27 million.
Political analyst Ong Kian Ming said, overall, between 25% and 30% of Malaysian voters were expected to be below 35 years old by the next general election.
“This is significant when one considers the larger number of unregistered but eligible voters in Malaysia.
There would also be two million Malaysians who would be eligible to vote for the first time in the next elections. “This is in addition to the four million eligible voters, many believed to be under 30 years old, who did not register in time for the March 8, 2008 polls.
“In total, we are talking about six million potential voters who are most likely, to be opinionated, Internet-savvy and idealistic,” he added.
According to Khaw Veon Szu, executive director of the Socio-Economic Development and Research Institute (SEDAR), young and first-time voters played a decisive role in the last general election and caused Barisan Nasional to lose its two-thirds majority in Parliament. SEDAR is Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia’s think tank.
“If we are flooded with another wave such as the one in 2008, it would change Malaysia’s political landscape. If political parties ignore these young and unregistered voters, it would be at their own peril,” he said.
Khaw said Gerakan had adopted several strategies, including getting the young and eligible to register as voters, irrespective of their political leanings.
“Each component party tries to reach out, to say something to the young. They go on the offensive in the cyber world. From feedback we had gathered, it is still a daunting task for us (to reach out to them),” he said. Therefore, most political parties have stepped up efforts to register new voters because statistics from the Election Commission showed that, last year alone, Umno registered the highest number of new voters at 24,818, followed by DAP with 17,756 and PAS with 16,987.
As this gathers momentum, some political parties have doubled their endeavour such as PAS, which has set out to get 500,000 new voters registered under the EC’s year-round registration programme.
The DAP, on the other hand, is targeting about a 10% increase in the number of voters in every constituency by carrying out registration exercises even at night markets and in shopping complexes.
“For example, in a constituency where you have 50,000 voters, we should get at least 5,000 new voters,” its youth chief, Anthony Loke, said.
The race to register more voters is getting more intense, especially in states currently controlled by the Opposition or “Pakatan Rakyat”.
Selangor executive councillor Ronnie Liu revealed that in Selangor alone, there were more than 700,000 eligible but unregistered voters while Kedah and Penang, the two other states controlled by Pakatan, have more than 300,000 and 200,000 unregistered voters respectively.
“That means that whichever party manages to register their supporters, it will make a lot of difference,” he said.
Another Selangor executive councillor, Datuk Hasan Ali, who is also Selangor PAS commissioner, admitted that the Pakatan-controlled states could fall back to Barisan Nasional if the Opposition failed to attract enough new voters.
However, other political analysts such as Dr Sivamurugan Pandian pointed out that although the young and new voters had been crucial in deciding the results in the last general election, not all the six million unregistered voters would get themselves registered for the coming general election.
“The current political landscape plays a role in their thinking because some of them are of the view that the alternatives are still the same,” he said, adding that there may not be a strong enough push factor to make them register as voters.
“As long as these unregistered voters do not see politicians as role models, it would still be very hard to convince them to register and vote in next general election,” he added.
In fact, Dr Sivamurugan cautioned political parties to also focus on older voters, especially those who had cast protest votes in the last general election.
“For example, they must understand that there are two different types of voter groups urban and rural.
“You just can’t rely on the young voters alone. Political parties must also engage with NGOs (non-governmental organisations) and other groups who call themselves the ‘third force’ that play a decisive role,” he said.
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EC can’t change addresses of voters on its own
KUALA LUMPUR: The Election Commission (EC) has no authority to change the address of voters without a signed application from them, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Nazri Abd Aziz said.
Under the Elections (Registration of Electors) Regulations, he said voters who wanted to apply for a change in address in the electoral rolls must apply to the EC, he said.
“The EC does not change the polling station of a voter from one place to another without receiving any signed application from the voter,” he said in a written reply to DAP MP Teresa Kok in the Dewan Rakyat, who wanted to know the reason for an increase in the number of complaints over the transfer of names of voters in the rolls without the knowledge of the voters.
However, he said the EC had the power to remove the names of voters who were confirmed dead, missing or who had lost their citizenship.
In a statement yesterday, the EC indicated that it was not necessary to make it mandatory for Malaysians to vote.
“The current election system is conducive and practical. If it is made mandatory, it would involve enforcement which can burden the people.
“Moreover, making it mandatory to register or vote is against Article 5 of the Federal Constitution that touches on an individual’s rights to liberty. It is also against the democratic principle practised in our country,” the statement said.
The EC was responding to a reader’s letter in The Star on June 24 which stated that the Government should make voting mandatory to ensure that everyone knew their rights and fulfilled their moral obligation to vote.
“No individual or party that is qualified under EC laws has been prevented from taking part in the election process, whether to vote or to contest.
“Thus, EC believes that the high voting percentage of more than 73% of those qualified to vote, is a clear sign that Malaysians are aware of their rights as enshrined in the Constitution,” the statement added.
The EC also responded to the reader’s query on postal votes, saying that voters could also register at the EC counter in Putrajaya, at state election offices, EC mobile counters and at computerised post office counters.
However, it stated that online voting was currently not allowed as it could be open to forgery and impersonation of individuals, adding that they were studying such matters in detail.
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PM tells Barisan to focus on 4.3 million eligible youngsters
KOTA KINABALU: Barisan Nasional component parties have been ordered to focus on the 4.3 million Malaysians who have yet to register as voters.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said all parties must make serious efforts to register them.
He said that one of the reasons for the poor response from youths was the lack of awareness about their responsibility.
Najib was asked to comment on a report that opposition parties were focusing on different communities to register voters.
Umno Youth membership bureau chairman Hishammuddin Yahya has been quoted as saying that the ratio of new Malay and non-Malay voters was 1:40.
Najib also cautioned against too much internal politicking and said he wants Sabah Barisan leaders to serve the people better.
“We must show we are the party that cares,” he said.
Najib, who is here on a one-day visit to launch the opening of the National Quran Recital competition, said this in response to persistent talk about changes as well as a public quarrel over seat sharing between component parties.
Najib said the requests were due to pressure from the grassroots. He said that this should not be a problem as it was the practice of Barisan to find consensus in whatever decision is made.
“The problems in Barisan Nasional can be handled as there are different views and demands but whatever it is I believe that all parties will abide by the decision made by the Barisan supreme council,” he said, adding that it was not necessary to discuss seat sharing at this point.
Later at the launch of the Quran recital, Najib said Malaysia must maintain its image as a progressive Islamic nation.
That was why the country was firm in handling any elements that could affect security and sovereignity such as militancy, human trafficking and smuggling, he said.
He said Malaysia was honoured that Saudi Arabia had called the country a progressive Islamic nation.
fr:thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/6/30/nation/6576118&sec=nation
Ratio of Malay to non-Malay newly registered voters about 2:1
By LOH FOON FONG
KUALA LUMPUR: The ratio of Malay to non-Malay newly-registered voters is about 2:1, said Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Liew Vui Keong.
Based on the National Registration Department’s statistics on the number of Malaysian citizens over 21 years of age, 134,298 registered as new voters between Jan 1 and to March 31 this year, 89,158 of them Malay and 45,140 non-Malay, he said Thursday.
Liew said 156,675 voters were directly registered in 2009 by the Election Commission (EC) while Umno registered 24,818, MCA 1,467, MIC 355, Gerakan 322, PKR 3,331, PAS 17,022 and DAP 17,790.
“Yang Berhormat Serdang’s claim that the EC was lackadaisical in registering voters is not true,” he told Parliament during an adjournment speech in reply to Teo Nie Ching (DAP-Serdang), who had asked the Prime Minister about new voter registration.
Liew said as of May 4 this year, there were 4,312,375 eligible voters who had yet to register.
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EC: 165,600 new voter registrations
KUALA LUMPUR: The Election Commission (EC) said 165,624 new voter registrations were received from April to June this year.
The EC, in a statement yesterday, said from the total, 25,693 registrations were received from existing voters requiring a change in their polling addresses.
The statement added that the registration list for the second quarter of 2010 would be publicly displayed at 999 locations throughout the country from today to Monday.
New voters and those requesting for a change in address should check the lists.
Those who have registered as new voters but find their names missing from the list can submit a request to the state EC director using Borang B within seven days, added the statement.
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Election Commission not keen to register new voters via Internet
By LESTER KONG
PETALING JAYA: Stick to registering as voters at the post office and forget about online registration for the time being.
Election Commission deputy chairman Datuk Wan Ahmad Wan Omar said online registration was risky, costly and unnecessary.
“It is not easy to set up online registration because there will be many loopholes for people to cheat and it’s difficult to check who is registering for whom,” he said yesterday.
Voter registration is also carried out at booths set up temporarily throughout the country.
He said unless expensive biometric systems were used for the purpose, it would be difficult to determine the authenticity of individuals registering online as voters.
“It would be open to cheating.
“Most countries do not allow online voter registration,” he said.
However, Wan Ahmad said Malaysia was one of the easiest countries to register voters due to the accessibility of post offices nationwide.
He said it would take not more than 10 minutes to visit any one of the 700 post offices to register.
Wan Ahmad urged the 4.3 million unregistered voters to register themselves as voters ahead of the 13th general election.
“There is no excuse for people to not register as voters,” he stressed.
He said the post office would authenticate the applicant’s status as a citizen with the National Registration Department.
He added that more than 2,000 representatives of political parties had been appointed to help register members of the public.
“There are lots of opportunities for people to register as voters. Why spend millions to set up an online system?” he said.
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900,000 students yet to register as voters
PETALING JAYA: More than 900,000 university and college students have yet to register as voters, a special officer to the Prime Minister said.
Datuk Shahlan Ismail, the Prime Minister’s political secretary, said the figure reflected poorly on the students’ leadership qualities.
Calling on them to be more responsible, Shahlan said the youths’ leadership skills had far-reaching implications on the country’s future.
“Students must exercise their right to vote leaders who are capable of driving the nation forward,’’ he said.
Shahlan was earlier quoted in a Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia news portal as saying it would be detrimental if students remained indifferent towards the general election.
He pointed out that the lack of leadership skills among university graduates was evident during job interviews, as even top scorers failed miserably during such meetings.
In an immediate response, Election Commission (EC) chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof said assistant election registrars would be appointed to facilitate voter registration at local universities.
“We have requested the universities’ help,” he said, adding that the appointments of assistant election registrars would be made after the Hari Raya holidays.
Abdul Aziz said that generally, youths around the world were not interested in registering themselves as voters.
“This is a global phenomenon. This problem is not peculiar to Malaysia.
“Generally, youngsters around the world don’t care much about voting. Maybe they think it is not important.”
EC public relations officer Sabri Said said about 4.3 million eligible Malaysians have yet to register as voters. Of the 4.2 million voters registered up to the first quarter of the year, 37% are youths aged between 21 and 40.
fr:thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/8/22/nation/6900792&sec=nation
Malaysia has 11 million voters
PUTRAJAYA: The country now has 11,381,193 voters following the gazetting of the supplementary electoral roll which contains 191,970 names, the Election Commission (EC) said.
Its registration panel chairman Datuk Zainal Abidin Mat Said said the EC had struck off 58,303 names in the latest roll, including the names of those who had died.
Meanwhile, he said there was a huge increase in the number of new voters registered this year compared with last year, with an average of 85,000 new voters registered in each quarter.
He said there were still 2,241,565 people who have reached voting age but had yet to register as voters.
“The EC has set the target of registering at least 50% of them,” he said here.
fr:thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/9/2/nation/6964042&sec=nation
Register members as voters, parties told
PUTRAJAYA: Barisan Nasional component parties have been reminded to step up efforts to get their members registered as voters.
Coalition secretary-general Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who is the Barisan chairman, had given the directive at the coalition’s last supreme council to ensure that all party members were registered voters.
He said 20% of the seven million registered members of 17 Barisan component parties were still not registered as voters and his meeting to discuss the matter with the secretary-generals of all the component parties yesterday agreed to focus on the effort.
“The meeting today (yesterday) discussed the methods to ensure all our members are registered voters because their registration before this has been slow,” he said yesterday.
Tengku Adnan, who chaired the three-hour meeting that started at about 11am, said it also decided that scheduled meetings like the one held yesterday would be carried out to help the component parties improve the ratio of registered voters.
“The meeting will be held once a month but if there are important issues, I will call for the meetings to held twice a month. At the same time, the component parties must device ways to ensure all their members are registered as voters.
“They need to find the source of the problem in their respective parties and try to resolve it so we can register new voters more actively,” he said.
MIC secretary-general Datuk T. Rajagopalu said the party representatives also discussed the BN convention to be held at Wisma MCA in November. He said that although there was online speculation the meeting was to discuss preparations for the Sarawak state election and the next general election, the matter was not discussed.
“I presented the report on the MIC and told the Barisan secretary-general that we have already registered 27,000 voters in the first phase of our exercise, and will work to register another 75,000 by the end of the year.
“Discussions on the general election were not on the agenda,” he said.
Rajagopalu said representatives from the component parties also had a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin at his office in the afternoon to discuss the coming Barisan convention.
fr:thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/9/9/nation/7007370&sec=nation
Show urgency in registering new voters, Umno told
A DELEGATE has expressed dismay at the lack of urgency showed by Umno and other Barisan Nasional component parties in courting the 4.3 million unregistered voters compared with opposition parties.
Saiful Bahri Baharuddin from Terengganu said that of unregistered voters, 1.9 million were Malays, 1.7 million Chinese, 400,00 Indians and the rest other races.
He lamented that the opposition was way ahead in the numbers game and had registered almost double the number of new voters compared with Umno and its Barisan counterparts.
“It is very worrying that many in Umno feel it’s business as usual. Umno and the Barisan have fallen far behind in registering new voters,” he said.
Saiful said the DAP had registered 55,321 new voters followed by Umno with 54,000, PAS with 38,000, PKR with 13,000, MCA with 3,000 and MIC with 1,000.
He noted that collectively, the opposition had registered some 107,000 new voters or almost double the number Umno and its Barisan counterparts had signed up.
Datuk Mustafa Kamal Mohd Yusoff also called on Umno to champion the rights of 60,000 petty traders in the city.
“We must champion the petty traders irrespective of their race and I propose that Umno set up a special secretariat to assist them,” he said.
Mustafa added that there were currently 58,888 registered and 4,000 unregistered petty traders, of which 27,889 were Chinese, 22,389 Malays and 4,608 Indians.
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247,000 new voters registered, says EC
KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 246,962 people have registered as new voters from July to September.
The Election Commission said in a statement today that 2,494 voters applied to change their polling station.
The Additional Electoral Rolls for the third quarter of 2010 will be displayed from Oct 27 to Nov 2.
The commission advised those who had registered as new voters and others applying for a change in polling venue to check the rolls.
Those who registered as new voters but were missing from the rolls should use Form B to lodge their claims.
Voters objecting to the inclusion of any name on the rolls should fill Form C to complain.
The rolls are displayed at State Election Commission offices (14 places), computerised post offices (457), government complexes/offices (103), district/land offices (157), district/municipal councils (52), multi-purpose halls, Rukun Tetangga bases and community halls (183) and other premises (30).
The commission is also displaying the names of voters to be struck off the register because of death or are no longer citizens or for any other reason by which they have been disqualified from voting.
The commission called for the cooperation of the next-of-kin to report deaths promptly to the National Registration Department and present a certificate of burial as proof of death.
“Without confirmation of death from the department, we have no power to remove the name of the deceased from the voters registration database,” the commission said.
It advised voters who had moved house to request a change of polling station closer to their new place of residence.
For more information go to www. spr.gov.my or call the commission’s headquarters at 03-8885 6500 or fax 03-8888 9117.
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3.7 million yet to register as voters
More than 3.7 million Malaysians aged above 21 have been reminded to register as voters now so that they will not regret missing the opportunity to vote in the coming 13th general election.
Election Commission chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof said according to the records up to the third quarter of last year, only 12,400,437 Malaysians were gazetted as voters compared to the number of those eligible to register at 16,131,571.
“We hope the balance of 3,731,134 will register to enable them to cast their votes in the next election to determine the country’s future,” he said after opening a state-level briefing for general election managers and assistant managers here yesterday.
“If they want to be voters, they must register early as it is not a short process. At the moment, 23% of Malaysians eligible to vote have not registered.”
The registration of voters nationwide for the first quarter of this year is from January to March and the review done in April before being gazetted the following month. – Bernama
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