If you did something wrong, be a gentleman and admit it right?
But no, some people resort to and hide behind semantics and legal hogwash.
Worse, they dare to sue those who exercise their rights and courage to speak up.
Here is a quick summary of what happeend during the 1997 elections:
2 January 1997 was Polling Day in Singapore. On that day, top PAP guns walked into and stood inside a Cheng San GRC polling station while people were lining up to cast their votes. They were Prime Minister Mr Goh Chok Tong, Deputy Prime Minister Dr Tony Tan and Deputy Prime Minister Brigadier-General (NS) Lee Hsien Loong, none of whom were candidates for Cheng San GRC.At that time, Cheng San GRC was being hotly contested by The Workers' Party. As to the extent to which citizens at Cheng San GRC polling station were influenced to change their votes upon seeing high-ranking PAP leaders congregating there, we will never know.PAP won Cheng San GRC by a narrow margin of 54.8% to 45.2%.After the 1997 General Election, the Workers' Party lodged a complaint to the police that Mr Goh Chok Tong, Dr Tony Tan and Brigadier-General (NS) Lee Hsien Loong had been inside a Cheng San GRC polling station on Polling Day. The Workers' Party cited two sections of the Parliamentary Elections Act:Section 82(1)(d):"No person shall wait outside any polling station on polling day, except for the purpose of gaining entry to the polling station to cast his vote".Section 82(1)(e):"No person shall loiter in any street or public place within a radius of 200 metres of any polling station on polling day."However, the Attorney-General stated that the PAP leaders had not broken the law.Pointing to the use of the word “outside” in Section 82(1)(d), the Attorney-General explained[2]:“Plainly, persons found waiting inside the polling stations do not come within the ambit of this section. …. Only those who wait outside the polling station commit an offence under this section unless they are waiting to enter the polling station to cast their votes.”As for Section 82(1)(e), the Attorney-General pointed to the use of the word “within” and explained[3]:“The relevant question is whether any person who is inside a polling station can be said to be "within a radius of 200 metres of any polling station". … Plainly, a person inside a polling station cannot be said to be within a radius of 200 metres of a polling station.”
*Read the rest of the exposition of the 1997 episode at: http://jeannettechongaruldoss.blogspot.sg/2014/02/inside-outside-upside-down.html?m=1