 Sep 29: PAS Youth said it was the people’s pressure as well as the massive rally for electoral reforms on July 9 by Bersih 2.0 that prompted the Election Commission to remove 70,361 fake entries in the electoral list, with 50,000 still pending.
“The question is whether EC will do the clean up intensively without pressure from the people," said Johor PAS Youth chief Suhaizan Kaiat (pic), who has been spearheading the wing's electoral reforms watch.
"The cleanup will not happen without intense pressure from the people. Congratulations to Malaysians!,” he added.
EC secretary Kamaruddin Mohamad Baria earlier announced that the Commission with the help of the National Registration Department had removed 69,293 voters who had since deceased from the electoral list.
Another 1,068 have been removed because their citizenship was stripped, with 50,000 more in the electoral roll being scrutinised.
Suhaizan, who heads PAS Youth’s Democracy Restoration and Mobilisation bureau, urged the EC to also provide its investigation report on the existence of 'phantom voters' or voters who had dubious identity cards.
He added that the public wanted to know how many voters had been removed due to clone identity cards which enabled them to vote more than once.
EC’s latest admission contradicted its chief Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof who on August 19 claimed that the electoral roll contained only "0.0001 percent" errors of the total of 12.3 million voters.
Suhaizan said it had now been revealed that the number was "0.98 percent".
"The large number of voters removed also disproves the statement by EC deputy Wan Ahmad Wan Omar that the errors were due to negligence of the clerks. It is impossible that such a negligence can cause hundreds of thousands of errors in the EC database," added Suhaizan. |
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