The DAP has suggested that the Election Commission (EC) proposes in Parliament next month an amendment to the Election Offences Act which will make it an offence to be a phantom voter.

The party feels that now was a good time to do so since the opposition and ruling parties have complained about the rampant nature of phantom voters and that the EC should revise the list to reflect the voter composition more accurately.

The DAP and other opposition parties have been complaining about phantom voters over the years but nothing has come out of it, except for a 1999 court case in Likas where the complainant won the petition on the basis of a rigged electoral list.

Party chairperson Lim Kit Siang said the proposal is to hold a voter registered in a constituency where he or she has no residential or work ties as having committed an offence.

He said the EC should "wake up to the fundamental flaws of the electoral list which makes it a mockery of the claim that Malaysian elections are free, fair and clean".