The Election Commission (EC) has explained that the daughter of Penang Deputy Chief Minister II P Ramasamy, who claimed her name was added into the electoral roll without her knowledge, was registered as a voter by a political party.

According to Malay daily Berita Harian , EC chief Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof told a press conference yesterday in Kuching that the daughter was registered as a voter in the Semenyih state seat under the Hulu Langat parliamentary constituency using an address in Semenyih on Feb 21, 2011.

The registration was done through the EC’s application form Borang A with her identity card bearing an address in Selangor, and the form was submitted by a political party, he said.

However, the EC has yet to find out which political party.

azlan Abdul Aziz stressed that her registration was done in accordance with the rules and her identity card has been verified by the National Registration Department, making the registration successful.

“The EC is currently finding her Borang A to become evidence. We did not arbitrarily put voter names in any place,” he was quoted as saying.

Ramasamy’s daughter Sri Vaitheki, 25, is currently a PhD student in London.

Ramasamy found out that she has been registered as a voter without her knowledge when a campaign letter from Selangor BN was sent to her family house in Kajang, stating her voting details.

It appears that Sri Vaitheki is not the only victim of such incident.

Earlier, another parent, Tiruchelvam Vallipuram, had complained to Malaysiakini that his daughter was on the electoral roll although she had not registered as a voter.

Tiruchelvam came to know of his daughter’s name in the roll when he received a Deepavali card last year from Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, who signed it off as Selangor BN chief.

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