The Election Commission (EC) may be sabotaging the electoral process, Selangor DAP said today, citing restrictions and difficulties faced in the voter registration process.

Its chief Tony Pua said today the EC had informed Selangor DAP to cancel all planned voter registration campaigns after Oct 3.

"(This is) purportedly because the EC now has to focus on handling the objections to the proposed redelineation exercise," the Petaling Jaya Utara MP told a press conference in Petaling Jaya.

Pua said the EC also failed to give its full cooperation for the five registration drives Selangor DAP held this month, with limited numbers of forms provided during each session.

"At best, the actions of the EC show that it is incompetent and abdicating its responsibilities to ensure that qualified voters are able to exercise their right to vote.

"At worst, the EC is clearly sabotaging the electoral process by denying these voters their basic rights," he said.

Instead of making concerted efforts to increase the number of voters registered, Pua claimed, the EC was doing its utmost to slow down the registration of new voters.

This includes having stopped the appointment of assistant registration officers (ARO) from political parties and NGOs since 2013, he said.

Asked for the EC's rationale for ending the appointment of AROs, Pua retorted: "They said 'we don't need it anymore... We can handle it on our own'."

Also present during the press conference at the Selangor DAP headquarters in Petaling Jaya were Selangor DAP vice-chief Hannah Yeoh (photo) and its state assemblypersons.

Yeoh said in total, Selangor DAP only managed to facilitate the registration of 1,484 new voters, and the change of voting addresses of 741 others.

"We advertised that the registration drive was open until 6pm, but had to end it from as early as 2pm," said the Subang Jaya assemblyperson.

This was despite repeated requests for the EC to bring at least 2,000 forms to each location, added Yeoh, who is also the state assembly speaker.

Separately, PKR vice-president Rafizi Ramli also called on the EC to improve its online registration system at the post offices, to cope with anticipated increases in numbers of voters registered.

"An online system would also ensure that voters can get instant notification of their registration status, instead of having to wait six months," he said.

The move, Rafizi said, should be done after taking into consideration the inefficiencies of the manual registration system - including having not enough registration forms.