Posters are an important feature in election campaigns. They show the party is organised and interested and they help electors keep their nerve in voting for a new force. Posters should go up at important roundabouts for motorists to see, next in the town and village centres and lastly -- ideally the night before the poll -- at each polling station.
In Malaysia, the Election Commission wants to ban election posters, saying they are a waste of money. Posters, they argue, soil the environment and often spark quarrels between the camps of rival candidates. Personally, I don't think there should be a ban on posters as they are one of the "tools" of election campaigning in a democracy. Democracy implies that those who stand for elections will have a fair chance to give the electorate their point of view. When that fair chance is denied to any party, the process of democracy is hindered and the elections are that much less fair..and so what's this "democracy" got to do with banning election campaign posters? Everything...
