EC denies claims dead man’s name reinstated in electoral roll
The Election Commission (EC) has denied allegations that a dead man’s name, which had allegedly been taken out of the electoral roll previously, was then put back for the 14th general election (GE14).
Commenting on information spread on social media pertaining to the case of the late MM Narayanan Nair T Narayanan Nair, who died in 2003, EC chairman Mohd Hashim Abdullah said the EC conducted an immediate check on the matter.
“The EC found that the name had never been taken out, and remained in the voters’ list since it was registered in 1994.
“As such, the claims by certain quarters that the dead man’s name had been taken out and had now been re-inserted into the electoral roll with the coming GE14 is not true,” he said in a statement here today.
Hashim was speaking following a statement by the National Registration Department (NRD) today on the spread of the information on the late MM Narayanan Nair, who is still on the electoral roll for GE14.
According to the NRD, it had contacted the family of the late MM Narayanan to clarify the matter and obtained a positive response from them.
Hashim said the EC would take immediate action to delete his name from the voters’ list for GE14.
“The EC stresses that it cannot simply delete a voter’s name without confirmation of death by the NRD,” he said.
--Bernama
Anonymous #40112563. Look on the bright side. Najib & EC are very proud that Malaysian are in the World Guinness Book Of Records for having the most oldest living person in the world. Not only one but 100 !!!!!!! OMG.
Is it not the job of the EC & the NRD (known as JPN) to do the job. This is another screw-up or whatever by both departments. EC got the bloody cheek to tell all they have updated all records. I wonder what they meant than????? Wonder how many are still there??? Is this is not highlighted than it will always be there for .................... Too many grounds to declare GE14 null & void. But we have not started yet. Shit.
There are 48 voters in the Kapayan N19 State seat & 76 voters in the Moyog N20 State seat who are 100 years or more old in the current GE14 rolls! This was determined by just scanning the saluran 1 list within an hour! What has the EC & NRD been doing all this while? Is it such an enormous task? Even with a simple laptop and visually checking it can be done, what more running a simple computer app (Excel, Access, etc)! Just remove them from the rolls and wait for objections. That could be the easiest way to verify.
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