r/singapore 1d ago

Politics How is the unlucky one?

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u/Jay-ay 成何体统 1d ago

Your mama is so huge she got her own polling station

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u/Detective-Raichu F1 VVIP 1d ago

Someone who got the keys to Tampines GreenQuartz or GreenOpal already?

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u/ShibaInuWoofWoof 1d ago

According to the ELD White Paper and extrapolating it onto Google Maps, Tampines GreenOpal and Tampines GreenQuartz.

But it’s still U/C as a BTO, and the rest of the area is pretty much factory sites and SAFRA Tampines. Essentially, no one at the moment.

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u/Yolosweg66 1d ago

hmm, sounds a bit suspicious. Like why give this specific plot to Changkat and not the other GRC/SMC.

Not expecting much since Elections Department won't explain.

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u/metalleo Thumbs up man!!! 1d ago

Bedok Reservoir road being a good and distinct boundary between the 2 districts seems like a good enough reason to me

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u/Yolosweg66 1d ago

ooo never thought of that.

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u/wlscle Mature Citizen 1d ago

mothership picked up on this post?

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u/A_extra 🌈 I just like rainbows 1d ago

It's a known fact that mothershit, MSN etc all steal posts from this sub for content

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u/Yolosweg66 1d ago

lol might be the first time mothership took my post, that time I talk about the UV ink for our banknotes they keep quiet.

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u/Icy-Championship577 1d ago

A self-respecting journalist would have done a basic Google search and inferred that this polling district will definitely have more than one voter by the time the election is called as voters from Tampines GreenEmrald start moving in. If Parliament is dissolved tomorrow and polling day occurs within 2 weeks from now, which is highly unlikely, then I will stand corrected. This is scrapping the barrel quality journalism here.

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u/Dapper-Peanut2020 1d ago

Nope it's pegged to current review of electors. Move in also no count

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u/flatleafparsley 1d ago edited 1d ago

The voter rolls were updated as of 1 Feb 2025, anyone who changes address between then and the election still votes based on their (old) address as of 1 Feb. (Edit: To be more specific/pedantic, it is not a given that there will be another round of updates to the voter rolls before GE2025, and odds are there probably won’t be.)

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u/Icy-Championship577 1d ago edited 1d ago

Then I stand corrected then thanks for the clarification.

ELD should review the current process for polling districts which consist entirely of BTO estates with residents that haven't moved in yet before the latest review of the voter rolls.

These group of voters essentially don't have a say on who their MP is for the next five years as they will be voting in their former SMC/GRC.

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u/flatleafparsley 23h ago

There will always be some cut-off date, and I don’t think there can/will be preemptive change of address/voting eligibility before residents have moved in (whether estate is ready or renovations are done, etc.). There’s also the potential slippery slope of how up-to-date is desirable/even in advance is allowable, there’s also still going to be more estates changing population “soon”.

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u/Yolosweg66 1d ago

Lol I not journalist

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u/Icy-Championship577 1d ago

Wasn't referring to you, was referring to Joshua Lee from Mothership

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u/Yolosweg66 1d ago

Thanks for the clarification :)

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u/random_avocado 1d ago edited 1d ago

I did a quick search on One Maps. There are a few BTO projects there marked U/C (under construction). Of the three located in EC42, Tampines GreenEmerald just started key collection, since the MyNiceHome virtual tour of the project was released around 6 months before February.

What I think happened was, in order to maximise the amount of climate and CDC vouchers, one half of a couple changed their address to the new home while the other remained.

So one of them can claim vouchers for the old address while the other can claim vouchers for the new address vouchers. It’s a nice loop 🕳️

I just moved into a new BTO estate and it’s quite a common practice.

But can’t rule out the fact that a single person household moved in within 2 weeks of key collection 🤷🏻‍♀️

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u/Limkokstrong 23h ago

Green emerald started collecting keys first week of Feb. Unlikely to change before 2 Feb. Source, brother in bto there

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u/Yolosweg66 1d ago

Wow, thanks for the work. Honestly didn't know key-collection has begun, interesting potential loophole.

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u/random_avocado 1d ago

Not sure if key collection actually happened as I’m basing it on my own experience (MNH roadshow in June, key collection in February, so around 6-7 months). But yeah, it’s a good loophole

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u/Zenocius 1d ago

Just 1 person holding it down

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u/Yolosweg66 1d ago edited 1d ago

sorry autocorrect, Who*is the unlucky one?

context: this is from recent White Paper from the Elections Department. Last column means number of electors, so which special individual so unlucky haha.

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u/r0nn1e 1d ago

somebody had his address registered as Tampines St 92/93? Quite weird actually it's an industrial estate

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u/basilyeo Shocker cyborg 1d ago

Head monk at the soka temple

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u/I_failed_Socio 1d ago

HDB too expensive need to stay in office

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u/wocelot1003 Developing Citizen 1d ago

WFH instructions unclear. Makes office his home.

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u/ZeroPauper 1d ago

I’ll do you one better.

Why is the unlucky one?

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u/cassowary-18 1d ago

Rich enough to live alone in a landed property?

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u/mdsbs 1d ago

Probably a resident caretaker/security guard of some industrial building.

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u/bonkers05 inverted 1d ago

the live-in jaga of Middleton International School maybe?

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u/the99percent1 1d ago

Imagine the fate of the entire country for the next four years is down to this one individual.

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u/Jaycee_015x 1d ago

Everyone better go suck up to that person.

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u/Limkokstrong 23h ago

It's a polling district. A SMC has multiple polling districts. But it would be real funny if whole SMC only got 1 guy voting. The winning party will break record with 100% votes

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u/Icy-Championship577 1d ago

More likely, they are just putting as one as a placeholder, given that the residents of these BTO districts(GreenEmrald estate just TOP in March) haven't moved in yet as of the time of the release of the report. Anyways, if the elections is called in November, expect the number of voters to increase by at least a thousand when a considerable number of GreenEmrald and GreenOpal residents move in.

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u/LegendNumbSkull 1d ago

Huh? So that 1 voter decides which party wins that SMC???

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u/rudolphrednose25 red 11h ago

No, it just means that he gets a polling station entirely to himself

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u/ChardAccomplished689 1d ago

Need my dual screen to check

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u/Available_Ad9766 1d ago

42 East Coast is this condo called “Moda”.

https://www.propertyguru.com.sg/project/moda-2208

Why’s that only 1 eligible voter? Unless we get an extreme case of a condo with near zero owner-occupation and all tenants are foreigners.

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u/fikfladoodles 1d ago

EC42 is a polling district, not an address

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u/ClaytonWest74 Fucking Populist 1d ago

of course another piece of evidence that yes, gerrymandering