Opposition party DAP has today questioned the allegedly high increase in the number of new foreign-born voters, effectively doubling the electoral lists in at least two Selangor state seats it has described as "uncomfortable" and which are being eyed by the BN.

NONE "We believe that this is a BN strategy to put foreign-born (instant citizen) voters in the Balakong and Bangi state seats, so that they can retake the state seats and recapture Selangor in GE13," said DAP's Serdang MP Teo Nie Ching ( right ).

She described how Bangi and Balakong - which are under her parliamentary district - saw an increase of new voters at 51 and 53 percent respectively.

Meanwhile, the nearby Seri Kembangan state seat only saw a 23 percent rise in new voters.

 Teo smelled a rat because the increase is not uniform in the areas which share the same geographical demographics.

It is as if the unsafe Pakatan seats like Bangi and Balakong are the only ones targeted, she added, but not the safer seat of Chinese majority Seri Kembangan.

Indonesian-born citizens

More so, she revealed the existence of many foreign-born citizens being granted citizenship and then registered as voters by the Information, Communications and Culture Ministry's Special Affairs Department (Jasa) in Balakong, as discovered in her search of the electoral roll.

In particular, there are 31 Indonesian born citizens granted citizenship about three years ago residing in Taman Setia in Balakong.

"It is known as Taman Boyan as it is full of Indonesians," she elaborated.

But what aroused her suspicions, she said, is that the persons listed by the electoral roll all have no house numbers and no detailed street addresses in their voter registrations by Jasa.

This she believe, is indicative of many of the new voters inflating the electoral list in Bangi and Balakong, underlining her fears of alleged BN hanky-panky.

The opposition have expressed their worries of phantom voters or instant citizens allegedly slipped into the voter list of constituencies won by the opposition, especially marginal seats, to dilute their support and engineer a BN victory.

However the ruling party has denied that it is using government departments and assets to fiddle with the electoral roll and use instant-citizens instructed to vote BN as vote buffers in opposition held areas.