The group, who are part of the 1thirdmedia Movement, organised a collection campaign for postal votes over the past seven days from Malaysians who are working and residing in the city-state.

1thirdmedia Movement was one of the movements that teamed up with Undi18, a Malaysian youth movement, to bring back postal votes from Singapore.

They had done the same during the Johor state election earlier this year.

“We feel relieved to be able to complete this duty entrusted to us before polling day. We hope that these votes will reach polling centres throughout the country on time,” volunteer Farrah Diyana Ali told Bernama.

Farrah, 34, said five collection zones had been set up to cover the central, eastern, western, northern and southern sectors of the island nation before they were combined to be brought into Malaysia.

The boxes arrived around 2am at the sorting centre in Kuala Lumpur after the cut-off time for collection at 2pm yesterday in Singapore.

“Happy… overwhelmed… to be able to bring home these ballot envelopes,” said another volunteer Calvin Ong.

“It’s a success for our team after a week of hard work collecting the postal votes.

“It’s very tiring but it’s a worthwhile mission for the sake of the country,” said Ong, 35, who hails from Taiping.

After all the hardship, Ong left a simple message for over 20 million voters in the country, “Go out and vote”.

According to Undi18’s Twitter, there are a million Malaysian voters overseas. It had also shared a few photos showing ballots that arrived from around the world at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), with China and Germany being the earliest.

Apart from the 1thirdmedia Movement, the other groups helping to bring back votes for GE15 are Vote Malaysia and Global Malaysian Network.

All the ballot envelopes will be taken to the sorting centre in Kuala Lumpur for the sorting process.

The deadline for postal ballot papers to be received by the managing officer at the election division is before 5pm on voting day.