Bersih: New voters face discrimination without more electoral seats

New voters from the implementation of the automatic voter registration system and the lowering of the voting age from 21 to 18 may find their vote to have less value.

Bersih said this is because many of the estimated 5.8 million new voters will be concentrated in urban centres that are already underrepresented, and the influx of new voters will further aggravate the imbalances...