The Election Commission (EC) won’t entertain the opposition’s complaints about 40,000 phantom voters during the 13th general election (GE13) in May as it is too busy, deputy chief Wan Ahmad Wan Omar said.

Labelling the complaints as “ignorant”, Wan Ahmad was quoted as telling Utusan Malaysia that the EC has other work to think about and won’t respond to DAP and PAS members who do not first understand the electoral rules.

“As I have said before, all allegations and slander thrown at the EC are aimed at raising a public furore and spoiling the EC’s credibility... It is an attempt by the opposition to gain sympathy votes,” Wan Ahmad was quoted as saying.

He added that the lies were made up by the opposition in a bid to topple the government.

In the same article, Wan Ahmad however cited DAP’s Ong Kian Ming as an example of someone who understood how the EC worked because he had agreed with election observer Pemantau’s report that no foul play was involved in Serdang, where Ong won his MP seat.

 

On polling day, DAP supporters and Ong accused a 30-year-old construction worker, Chua Lai Fatt, of being a foreigner and trying to vote in GE13. Chua has a dark skin and features that belie his Chinese name. Ong later apologised.