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Pandemic or No Pandemic, Singapore Readies for Polls

Officials say better now than later

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John Berthelsen
Jun 02, 2020
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The government of Singapore, its reputation for technological supremacy dented by its botched approach to Covid-19, with the economy sagging and the patriarchal Lee family in a divisive dispute, is about to attempt to pull off a national election, apparently sometime in July, with in-person voting likely in the middle of a pandemic.

Under the country’s W…

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