 Oct 14: Closely following up with the Election Commission on every revelation of electoral fraud, PAS Youth has turned its guns on the reliability of Agency Link-Up System (ALIS) linked to the National Registration Department, which EC had claimed could put to rest worries about 'phantom voters'.
This followed the EC's latest admission that some 40,000 voters’ names were not found in NRD's database.
“Prior to this, EC was all praise of the ALIS. Surely NRD has the ‘best’ database system in the country. Well, what has gone wrong now?” asked Suhaizan Kaiat, who head the wing's Democracy Restoration and Mobilisation bureau.
EC chairman Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof, who once said there was only "0.001 percent error" in the electoral roll, yesterday announced that the Commission would publish 40,000 unverified names in an effort to weed out phantom voters.
“Let people help us verify. If they see their names on the list, come forward to the EC,” he said.
 Suhaizan (left) pointed out that the ALIS could have easily helped NRD and EC to differentiate genuine and phantom voters among the 40,000 names, and asked why the number of suspected phantom voters had now been slashed by 10,000.
Aziz had earlier mentioned that the total was around 50,000.
“I don’t know how the 10,000 voters can vanish just like that,” he quipped, but quickly added that the EC had finally "admitted that there is a need to clean up the electoral roll”. |
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