The use of indelible ink is an important method to prevent multiple voting and is practiced in many countries including the war-torn and warlord-infested Afghanistan. In Malaysia, the implementation took 50 years only to be canceled three days before the 12 ^th general elections. What is the motivation behind the cancellation?

It is clear that the Inspector-General of Police and the Attorney-General made their last-minute intervention to a very much expected acceptance by the Election Commission chairperson. Once again the cloak of so-called ‘national security’ is cast to bury the people's proposal to address the cancerous election fraud that is eating up our democracy.