Please share with all your readers what I observed on Saturday, Sept 18 at No. 602 Jalan Sang Kancil, Kota Kinabalu. I was there when polling for the PKR direct elections started.

Firstly and surprisingly, non of the party members’ status were verified by anyone from PKR’s headquarters. It was out-sourced to people who were clearly working and/or aligned to a former PKR supreme council member.

This person was seen giving orders to them and on many occasions throwing tantrums at them as well.

All the ballot papers were dished out by the officials from the PKR HQ without them actually counter-checking with the membership roll whether the receiver was indeed a qualified member entitled to vote.

On more than three occasions, I even saw one person approaching the officer from the PKR HQ with two, three, and four MyKads to collect all the ballot papers.

Another strange part was this candidate’s people marking ballot papers on behalf of members everywhere in the compound (some on the street outside the gate) and then passing the marked ballot papers back to the members and telling them to enter the polling area and deposit the marked ballot papers into the respective ballot boxes.

During the counting of votes, I was standing in a small crowd outside the gate to watch the process. Although it rained heavily, we clearly heard the official from the PKR HQ admitting that the number of ballot papers issued was far more than the actual number of members who came for the election.