25th Jan 2019 – Overseas Voting Reform Survey

Global Bersih Overseas Voting Reform Survey

Global Bersih carried out a survey from 25th January to 18th February 2019 with the purpose of obtaining the opinions of the Malaysian diaspora on the current overseas voting process as well as exploring potential new voting methods. The questions for the Overseas Voting Reform survey were formulated based on the insights gained from the following sources:

  1. Global Bersih GE13 Overseas Voting Results
  2. Global Bersih Data Collection on Malaysia’s 14th General Election Overseas Voting Process
  3. The 2018 Electoral Reform Roundtable discussions held in Parliament

Altogether, 749 Malaysians from 248 cities around the world participated in the survey, which ended on 19th February 2019.  The survey analysis was compiled in the Overseas Voting Reforms Survey Report whose findings were included in the Overseas Voting Reforms Proposal launched on 1 August 2019.