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Electoral rolls anything but clean
Published:  Aug 11, 2011 8:31 AM
Updated: 2:34 AM

your say 'Which is why we need to have the indelible ink to ensure no voter can vote more than once, even if registered in more than one constituency.'

More 'clone voters' detected in electoral roll

Danny Lazaroo: Allowing your supporters to vote for you twice, while your opponent's supporters have to follow the law and vote only once - I must say this is a fairly simple yet brilliant way of rigging the election process.

It is an example of cleverness - but for the pursuit of perverting the course of democracy, and through illegal means. There is no legitimate excuse the NRD (National Registration Department) or EC (Election Commission) can offer here - how can people not only appear as registered in two different areas, but have two different ICs as well?

And how is it that regular citizens can detect these anomalies, even though we have invested millions into securing and maintaining the validity of these databases?

The answer is that there is no such thing as the perfect crime - there is always a paper trail or some evidence or some way of shining a light on dirty deeds.

The individuals responsible for these 'errors' deserve prosecution for treason, and should either be exiled or hung for going against the sovereignty of our nation and king.

Moontime: Sigh... what more evidence does the EC need before deciding to take action? Enough of the verbal ‘tai chi' and clean up your act.

Keep on exposing the frauds, irregularities and mistakes in the electoral rolls so that EC might succumb to pressure and forced to clean up the electoral rolls.

No one can cheat forever. Sooner or later, the truth will come out as in this case.

Tailek: Which is why we need to have the indelible ink method to ensure no voter can vote more than once even if he is registered under the same or different name in more than one constituency.

EC, take note please, and don't call this an old-fashioned method.

Superwoman: This is the reason why the BN government was so high-handed in handling the Bersih 2.0. It is afraid and adamant not to change the electoral rolls. We can see the EC is co-operating with them with malicious intent.

Boiling Mud: Is it possible for someone to write out the instruction and post it on the Internet for the public to help screen and smoke out dubious entries in the electoral rolls?

I mean, something along the lines of ‘Vetting of Electoral Rolls for Dummies?' Make it easy to follow. To clean up the electoral rolls is a mammoth job that it needs the effort of all Malaysians. Time is running out...

1.Malaysia: I noticed most of those clone voters are old people. Are they deceased persons? Otherwise, how can they vote only at certain places while they are registered under different area?

AB Sulaiman: After the exposure of these phantom, permanent resident and now the clone voters, I am sufficiently convinced that the present electoral roll is anything but clean.

A dirty electoral roll will never produce a clean election. In the event, may I suggest the following:

1. That the roll should be cleased by an independent body before the next general election in 2013.

2. In the event an early election is called as is widely expected, then the use of the indelible ink should be made compulsory.

3. The government should pay heed to 1 and 2 to retain or salvage any semblance of legitimacy.

Hello: With all these cases of ‘phantom', ‘permanent resident', ‘double', ‘alien' voters being reported daily, it is very clear that either there is at least some dereliction of duty, or at the other end of the spectrum, an agenda to stack the electoral rolls.

This responsibility lies with the NRD and the EC, and both agencies are either acting independently or together in abusing the system. And until today, all we have is deafening silence from the police.

Kgen: This is why the EC is allergic to indelible ink which will stop multiple voting. The biometric system will do nothing to stop the same person from voting more than once if there are duplicate entries in the system.

Malaysians must press EC to implement indelible ink or their right to choose their own government is subverted by commission. If it takes a Bersih 3.0, let's go for it.

There are three things we must pressure EC to do.

1) Use indelible ink

2) Clean up postal votes

3) Allow overseas Malaysians to vote.

If these three things are done, BN will lose the election.

Changeagent: The EC and NRD should be ashamed of themselves. These kind of errors are unacceptable for a country that is striving towards developed country status in 2020.

Haven't they heard or thought of using database software systems like Microsoft Access? It will literally take minutes, if not seconds, to duplicate Malaysia's entire database of 28 million people.

Unless of course, the mistakes are intentional to favour the ruling coalition's chances of re-election at the next general election.

Go Green: Malaysia does not allow dual citizenship, but it allows dual votership.

Quigonbond: I think reality in Malaysia is following science fiction.

First, there was the ‘Phantom (voter) Menace', now it's ‘Attack of the Clones', and soon enough, ‘Revenge of BN' in the coming general elections.

But BN fails to appreciate the other side of the series, which is ‘2008 A New Hope', followed by the Perak debacle in the ‘Empire Strikes Back'. In the end, Malaysians will get ‘Return of Justice', post-13th general elections.

 


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