Sample Count super zhun

In all constituencies except one Single-Member Constituency (SMC), the sample results reflected official results, with a margin difference of less than 2 percentage points.

The only outlier was the three-cornered fight in MacPherson SMC, whose margin of difference is 2.5 per cent.

Maybe there will be "much soul-searching" why MacPherson SMC is less zhun than the rest.

But this is well within the margin of error of +/- 4 per cent.

The public and civil servants passed with flying colours yesterday

With high-profile corruption cases in the public service and civil service accounting lapses highlighted by the Auditor-General's Office (AGO) in the past few years, Singaporeans certainly wondered whether the public and civil service were as efficient, competent and honourable as the pioneer generation of civil servants.

Of course, I am not saying that our GEs are not conducted in a free and fair manner previously.

But the public servants have really passed with flying colours in the most tense of events - the General Election - in how they organised the nation-wide exercise.

For the sample count system, the Elections Department (ELD) has under-promised and over-delivered.

In fact, they have prepared time and time again behind-the-scenes, with previous counts conducted in the 2011 presidential election, the 2012 Hougang by-election and the 2013 Punggol East by-election.

And let's not forget the smooth running of Polling Day.

Across the nation, the 30,000 public officers at 832 sites conducted the voting of 2.3 million Singaporeans without any hitches or hiccups.