PKR director of strategy Rafizi Ramli today revealed the names of eight individuals who had made police reports about someone else voting on their behalf across the country, which he says proves the existence of phantom voters.

He added that PKR will start revealing evidence of electoral fraud that happened during the May 5 election, beginning this week.

NONE Rafizi ( right ) said that the party and the Pakatan Rakyat coalition have now collected enough evidence and will be releasing them periodically.

“We will have one press conference every two or three days to reveal things to the media, while others will go into our election petitions,” said the newly-elected Pandan MP.

He said that the election petitions would be submitted the moment official results are gazetted.

"The presence of phantom voters brings with it a huge impact that can erode the rakyat's confidence on the integrity of the election results," he noted.

He also said that the eight individuals, who are from seven different parliamentary constituencies, have lodged police reports as of May 17.

'Make SD for stronger evidence'

However, Rafizi said that Pakatan will ask these complainants to also make a statutory declaration (SD) so as to ensure that the evidence is stronger.

"There are also many others who have had experiences of someone else voting for them, but they have not lodged police reports. As such, we can't take in their complaints," he added.

He stressed that the existence of phantom voters confirms the National Registration Department’s (NRD) failure to guarantee that every identity card (IC) is safe and unique for every Malaysian citizen.

NONE "I challenge the Election Commission (EC) and NRD to produce their reasons and excuses to be judged by the court of public opinion.”

Malaysiakini CEO Premesh Chandran ( left ) was also a possible victim of phantom voting during the election, as some polling agents tried to prevent him from entering the voting booth because his name had been struck out from their list even without Premesh having voted.

However, Premesh - who voted in Petaling Jaya Selatan - had been allowed to vote by the EC officers who were there at the polling centre.