Good thing that Malaysia has introduced the new ballot box to show more transparency according to the STAR, Saturday 22 Dec 2007, at one glance finally we all know that the general election is very near. Some predicting will be after Chinese New Year 2008.
Whatever is it after reading the news clipping, it puts me to a thinking cap mode….what kind of plastic boxes that puts in paper that costs such a huge bomb to the tax payers? Sounds ridiculous, right? Well, I’ve gotta let the readers decide and think from common sense…
hahaha maybe the box is bullet proof? With inflation kept creeping up, seems like all cost will goes up including plastic boxes J
will let you read the news exceprts: 
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http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/12/22/nation/19812917&sec=nation&focus=1
6 responses so far ↓
chatty // December 23, 2007 at 7:24 pm |
Judging from all this…..we all better aim for our “JIPABAN” soon…the sooner the better.anyway anyone here can enlighten us how many boxes are we talking about and by knowing that we can calculate whats the real amount per box… If it is too expensive hmmm wonder can we query why it is so expensive????can we query by the way????hehe
bpython555 // December 24, 2007 at 7:06 am |
Hehe then the next thing you know they gonna come up with “Oh the pen ink for election isn’t a permanent ink, and we need to import new technology ink and that will cost another RM8million”!!! sempoi!!
marah // December 24, 2007 at 10:17 am |
RM16 million bahagi 50,000 boxes = 320 per transparent box.
hiding-behind-a-pseudonym // December 25, 2007 at 2:57 pm |
Before i jump in the bandwagon and start accusing the SPR of overspending on the transparent ballot boxes, I did my own little research of the commercial options available.
A transparent plastic box could cost anything from RM30 to RM 2,100 !!! This vast range of price is reflected in the various dimensions, features, and quality and durability of the product.
A state of the art transparent ballot box would probably cost the RM2,100. refer
http://www.kaiserkraft.co.uk/Section/27613 for a rough estimate. Here’s another example
http://www.canusplastics.com/ballot_box.html
Having these in mind, I would be ‘ok’ of the SPR’s spending on the boxes, given the trade-off between quality and price. I just hope its the best bargain they managed out. It would be so much better if its collapsible though, which is more economical for storage and transportation purposes.
I’m sure you guys wouldn’t be happy if SPR spent less than RM30 on per box with qualities such as those transparent suggestion boxes we see in shopping complexes which are fragile and not tamper proof.
music // January 8, 2008 at 11:01 pm |
very interesting.
i’m adding in RSS Reader
Flora // February 8, 2009 at 6:54 pm |
Nice work! I’ll have to do a cross post on this one