Only several hundred from among 79,098 voters have updated and verified their addresses, according to Election Commission (EC) chief Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof although the list of addresses with an unusually high number of registered voters has been on display for almost a month.

NONE "The response is poor, it is not looking too good," Abdul Azix ( right ) complained when contacted yesterday.

The commission was given 45 days from the day the parliamentary select committee's (PSC) report for electoral reform was tabled in April 3 to publish the list of addresses registered which had more than 50 voters, so that these voters can approach the EC to update their addresses and clean the list.

The EC has created a search engine on its website to enable them to check whether thay are registered at one of those addresses since mid-May.

The problems were uncovered in an audit conducted by the PSC-commissioned Malaysian Institute of Microelectronic Systems (Mimos).

The audit showed that there were 79,098 voters in 354 addresses, with at least 100 of them in each address.

"However, we will not give up but we just don't know how to make people become more serious about this issue," Abdul Aziz told Malaysiakini .

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