Show me one person who has voted twice, challenged Election Commission (EC) chief Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof while countering allegations of flaws in its on-line electoral system.

“From the time we got independence... even now, can you show me a court case of one person who has voted twice? Malaysiakini if you can bring one person to me who has voted twice [...],” said Abdul Aziz when asked on the purported claims of “cloned identities”.

Yesterday, Malaysiakini had reported that a quick check in the EC’s recently introduced on-line system revealed that there are names that have appeared twice in the electoral roll with the same old identity card (IC) number but with a different MyKad number and address.

 

NONE Abdul Aziz ( left ), however, admitted that this could have been resulted from “an error in the system” but it was not done intentionally by the EC to multiply the number of voters or to create phantom voters.

On the system glitch, Abdul Aziz said it was baseless to say that these are irregularities as there are 12 million voters registered and among those there probably were only “a hundred” errors.

“For example, in Penang, there is a locality with 88 voters registered at the same address but we are rectifying it. Every day we are checking through the system to fix the problems,” he said.

Abdul Aziz added that once the voters are contacted and located, the EC will mail a form to them to fill up and list their details including their IC numbers and current addresses.

However, the process might take up to four months as there is much verification to undertake, he said.

‘Azmin is not sincere as well’

A similar approach was taken when Gombak PKR parliamentarian Azmin Ali complained that  five Chinese individuals and one Malay were wrongfully registered at his mother’s house address.

“The persons registered were registered wrongly because of a slight difference in the address. Azmin’s mother live in 1E, Kampung Klang Gate Baru in Setapak, while the Chinese family’s address is 1E, Jalan Genting Lama, Klang Gate Baru.

NONE “We have sent people to search for them and we have given the family the forms to fill up to make the relevant changes,” he said, adding that however, the EC has yet to locate the other Malay individual.

He then lashed out at the opposition MP, accusing Azmin ( right ) of being “insincere” and “not right” as the latter has also yet to change his residential address with the EC.

“Azmin, his wife and his siblings no longer live with their mother, so why haven’t they changed their addresses to where they live?” he asked.

According to the law, a person is required to make the relevant changes pertaining to his or her residential address with the National Registration Department (NRD), once they live there for three months.

He explained that the EC will then cross-check details with the NRD using the Agency Link-Up System (Alis), and instructed the voter to also make the relevant changes to their voting address. 

He reiterated that the EC “cannot arbitrarily” remove the names or make changes without permission from the voter as it would only result in tampering of the electoral roll.

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