Phantom voters never fail to haunt elections in Malaysia and today opposition party DAP claimed that the electoral roll for tomorrow's Ketari by-election has an 'unusual' increase of voters in Genting Highlands.

Party national publicity secretary Ronnie Liu said there was an increase of 300 voters in the popular hill resort and casino which is a traditional Barisan Nasional stronghold.

"You know, nobody stays there, except for the staff," he told malaysiakini when met in Ketari, Pahang.

He also claimed about 650 voters in the area did not have complete addresses. "Just Hotel Genting Highlands. No room numbers, nothing."

According to Liu, every other place in the Ketari constituency except for DAP stronghold Perting saw an increase of voters.

On the contrary, Perting had a decrease in the number of its registered voters, he said.

"About 280 voters in Perting were transferred elsewhere or simply went missing," he lamented.

The DAP leader said his party has lodged a complaint with the Election Commission and has demanded an explanation.

"They [EC] failed to explain why this happened. They also cannot explain why there's a sudden jump of 300 voters in Genting Highlands," he said.

Liu also claimed several voters were found to have registered using addresses of houses which are still under construction.

In addition, there were also residents who complained that unidentified people had registered to vote using their addresses, he said.

Special team

The DAP leader warned that his party had devised a strategy to combat the phantom voters if they appear for polling tomorrow.

He said the party has set up a special team to be on the lookout for the dubious voters.

"We warn these people not to turn up. If they show up, we'll have no choice but to nab them," he stressed.

Liu explained that polling agents for the DAP candidate will be supplied with a list containing blacklisted names.

He said the polling agents will confront any phantom voters who turn up. "We'll make police report and demand the evidence on how the hell they got themselves registered here."

However, Liu declined to name their chief 'phantom-buster' but said the special team is led by a member of parliament.

"His team consists of other state assemblymen and state leaders," he said.

In tomorrow's by-election DAP's Choong Siew Onn will meet Gerakan's Yum Ah Ha.