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TANJUNG MALIM: Miscommunication might be the cause of the incident of voters in shorts being disallowed from entering the polling station at the Slim state by-election, Saturday, said the Election Commission (EC) chairman Datuk Abdul Ghani Salleh.

Explaining further, he said that the matter should not be a problem because as far as he is concerned, the people involved did not breach any rules.

“This is perhaps a slight miscommunication. Wearing shorts should not be a problem. Those who can’t enter are the ones who wear clothes bearing the party logo or in revealing clothes, but wearing shorts, in my view, is still allowed.

“We hope these voters will return to cast votes. Don’t be disheartened. In terms of regulations, there is no problem, perhaps a slight error in the implementation,” he told reporters at Sekolah Kebangsaan (SK) Aminuddin Baki, here, Saturday.

He was commenting on an incident in SK Aminuddin Baki, on Saturday morning, where several people who turned up in shorts were not allowed into the polling station and were seen tearing their voter information cards given by the EC out of anger.

It is understood that after being persuaded, some of them returned and were allowed entry, while there were some who came back in long pants to cast their ballots.