COMMENT Yes, the Election Courts are worse than the Election Commission (EC). The recent disappointing decisions of the Election Courts have proven that there is no hope for parliamentary democracy even in the judiciary.

If the BN is a great letdown for democracy, the EC is an even greater letdown for the electoral process. But shockingly, the Election Courts comparatively are far worse in that they cannot dispense justice to the aggrieved party even if there is a glaring injustice.

It is clear as daylight that the BN had abused the electoral process by openly bribing voters through its many projects launched especially during the period leading up to the GE13 (including the campaign period itself) by dishing out goodies and cash inducements to win over the voters.