Why can't 4.39 million register to vote?

Recent Malaysian news reported that around 4.39 million eligible Malaysians are yet to register as voters with Election Commission (EC)!! 65% of them are Malays and East Malaysians!! I really dont understand why people just ignored totally their most fundamental rights.In every 4-5 years, you...yeah you have the right to determine who is going to 'rule' yourself, your family, your friends, etc etc for the next 4-5 years.

BUT I must say that EC should be more 'active'...I know they set up booth all over Malaysia, make press statements one after another urging people to register, working closely with party politics to get eligible persons to register...

The best thing is I think for now is to educate people through the mass media (tv, print media, e-advertisement, etc)...not just during the election season BUT every day, every week, every month, every year starting from today...tell the people why you should register and tell them the consequence if they fail to do that. They should be more creative in enticing people to come to them...they should even think of letting people to register through their laptops...hey if you can let people pay their fines through the website or handle their bankings through maybank2u/cimb clicks/etc, why not? Do you notice that the people themselves found ways that makes life easier like smart tunnel, plus highway, proton cars (!!), lrt, klinik bergerak, etc...so I am very sure that you (EC) can find a simpler way that can let the people, without much fuss, to register to vote...MALAYSIA BOLEH, remember?

Talking about promoting or advertisement, it reminds me about McD...their products are being eaten by people all over the world every second yet they spent billions of dollars year after year to advertise themselves and their products over and over again...do you know why...that is their way to 'educate' people...they want to put in your head that if you are thinking of food, McD products should be the first one you should think of!!...you must be saying that you cannot compare Malaysia with a giant like McD...well you are entitled to your opinion BUT at least consider.

Talking about voting...my issue now is WHY Malaysian Government did not ever set up election booths in every Malaysian embassies that we have all over the world when there was an election? Why deny my right and the others to vote? What are you afraid of? Cost? Are you afraid that the Malaysians that have migrated to Australia, NZ, Canada, US, UK, Europe will vote the opposition? Or you are afraid to be accused of rigging the vote (like the accusations you are facing in the case of postal vote)?

I can assure you (EC or BN or even the opposition)...there are more than 300,000 Malaysians (including the Malaysian government servant working in embassies) that are living outisde Malaysia who would love to be given the opportunity to exercise their most fundamental right...and if your strategy is right, you will gain the most out of it...trust me. But make sure your strategy is fair and legal.

Hey, there were many candidates who lost by 10 votes, 100 votes or just less than 1000 votes...so just think about it.

I think I have said enough. In other words, nak seribu daya, tak nak seribu dalih.