The parliamentary select committee (PSC) on electoral reform is recommending that long standing allegations of a citizenship-for-votes scam in Sabah be probed.

It is learnt that this was among the long list of recommendations in the PSC's interim report that would be tabled to the Dewan Rakyat on Thursday.

As these recommendations do not require any legislative changes, sources said recommendations in the report can be immediately implemented.

azlan All that was required was amendments to the Election Commission (EC) regulations before the next general election, expected to be called soon.

On the probe for Sabah, it is uncertain if the PSC is recommending a Royal Commission of Inquiry but it is believed that there is significant basis for such a probe.

During the two day PSC hearing in Kota Kinabalu beginning Nov 25, save for Umno , all BN and opposition party representatives had pressed their case for an RCI into the claim.

Since 2006, there had been growing calls for a probe into the so-called ‘ Project IC ' , said to be a concerted effort to pad up the electoral roll with immigrants from Philippines and Indonesia to alter Sabah's voting demographics.

It has been pointed out to the PSC that the voter numbers in Sabah had grown disproportionate to the population growth.

Postal voting, indelible ink

Meanwhile, it is understood that the PSC is also recommending a form of audit on the integrity of the electoral roll, which opposition parties say are tainted with duplicate and dead voters, and thus open to abuse.

Sources said that the PSC is recommending Mimos Bhd, a technology agency under the Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry, to conduct the audit.

The PSC was also said to have recommended the use of indelible ink and limiting advance or postal voting to security and medical personnel serving in remote areas.

However, sources said that the PSC also recommends advance or postal voting for East Malaysian voters residing in the peninsula and vice-versa.

Previously, Bersih 2.0 and opposition parties have claimed that postal voting was open to abuse as there is no proper scrutiny system on advance voting process in military bases.