This PE2023 voter education one-stop portal features a comprehensive collection of information, infographics, comics, explainers, and articles exploring voting procedures, meta-electoral issues, and discussions on political principles and democracy in Singapore (*rather than election punditry).
Compiled by CAPE – an independent, non-partisan youth-run collective focused on building political literacy and democratic capacity in Singapore.
Note: This is an educational compilation of works by both CAPE and other unaffiliated publications. Listed works are NOT representative of CAPE’s stances nor should they be taken as endorsements by CAPE.
Last updated: 27 August 2023
Basic Voter Information
- CAPE explainer: All you need to know about the Presidential Elections
- CAPE explainer: How to qualify for the Presidential Elections (and consider the outsized role of the PEC)
- AcademiaSG Webinar by Assoc. Prof Kevin Tan on the Elected Presidency:
- Election Department: Do’s and Don’ts of Voting
- Election Department: First time voter guide
- Channel News Asia video on the Role of the Elected Presidency
- A CAPE 2017 infographic on the Elected Presidency timeline
Explainers on electoral issues
- CAPE explainer: Spoiling your vote and What is Protest Voting
- CAPE GE2020 explainer: Voter Accessibility in Elections
- CAPE GE2020 explainer: Democracy is more than just Elections
Commentaries and Articles
- AcademiaSG: Why Singapore’s next elected President should be one of its last (a commentary by Prof Kevin Tan and Prof Cherian George)
- Jom: The presidential contest on social media: greatest hits
- Kirsten Han’s weekly commentaries here, here, and here. And Kirsten’s call to spoil your vote.
- Sudhir Vadaketh (Jom editor-in-chief)’s response to Kirsten’s call to spoil your vote.
- Mothership’s feature preview of Cherian George’s book, Singapore, Incomplete, covering the 2017 Reserved Presidency as a “monumental miscalculation”
- A Facebook post by Tan Suee Chieh, former CEO of multiple Singapore-based insurance companies, tracking what a vote each candidate (and spoiling your vote) would symbolise.