No 'phantom voters' in Perak DAP election - returning officer
The returning officer for the Perak DAP election has denied allegations of phantom voting, or voters being smuggled in past registration time.
DAP Youth deputy chief Chiong Yoke Kong - who was assigned by the national leadership to oversee that state party election - said the allegations made by the camp of DAP vice-chairperson M Kulasegaran and his running-mate Thomas Su were baseless...
The returning officer for the Perak DAP election has denied allegations of phantom voting, or voters being smuggled in past registration time.
DAP Youth deputy chief Chiong Yoke Kong - who was assigned by the national leadership to oversee that state party election - said the allegations made by the camp of DAP vice-chairperson M Kulasegaran and his running-mate Thomas Su were baseless.
Earlier today, the Kula-Su camp accused the committee handling the election of still calling for delegates to attend the convention, even after registration had closed.
They pointed out that several delegates were seen wearing handwritten name tags, as opposed to the computer-generated identification.
Some of the camp's supporters also shouted "phantom votes" during a commotion while the election was underway.
Chiong, however, told Malaysiakini that handwritten name tags were merely used for technical reasons, to replace name tags that were wrongly printed.
He said the qualified delegates name list was prepared by DAP national organising department and brought to the state convention today from DAP headquarters.
Therefore, the party's state committee could not interfere with the name list by any means, Chiong stressed.
“The voting session only started in the afternoon. We re-verified the delegates' identity before they cast their votes.
"But the claims arose at around 11am, at which time we did not even start the voting process, so where did the unfair claims come from?” he asked.
Kulasegaran and Su were challenging cousins Nga Kor Ming and Ngeh Khoo Ham for the Perak DAP leadership.
However, the Nga-Ngeh camp made a clean sweep in the polls, with Kulasegaran and Su trailing far behind.
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