Chairperson of Mafrel (Malaysia for Free Election) Abdul Malek Hussin was interrogated by the police today for nearly two hours over the circulation of a report on alleged phantom voters in the Pengkalan Pasir electoral roll.

He was questioned by Chief Inspector Mohd Hesli Daud at the Pasir Mas police headquarters at 3.30pm and left at about 5pm.

Malek told reporters that the investigation was initiated by a complaint against the circulation of the report released by Mafrel yesterday.

He said the questioning revolved around the content of the report which police deem as confidential.

He defended the report stating that it merely questioned the identification of each ballot paper with a serial number.

Yesterday, Malek urged election workers of all parties to take precaution as these revelations indicated that phantom voters may make their presence on polling day.

Addresses don't exist

The report, based on the electoral roll as at Aug 15, 2005, reveals that 70.92 percent or 13,058 voters from the total 18,411 voters in Pengkalan Pasir do not have proper addresses.

20.44 percent of the voters have unknown home address and a total of 47 addresses listed in the roll each have six voters or more.

Mafrel volunteers visited the 47 homes to trace the 362 voters listed under it and discovered that 4.62 percent of these addresses do not exist.

PAS is taking warning of phantom voters serious and have offered a RM15,000 reward to anyone who can give genuine information.

However, the Barisan Nasional has denied such allegations awith Deputy Premier Abdul Najib Razak telling the media that there are no phantom voters.

"It is just PAS' imagination," he said over TV3 prime news today.