PAS said today that electoral rolls were riddled with irregularities, including the listing of voters aged up to 128 years.

According to the opposition party, it had detected a total of 28 names in two states where voters aged between 106 and 128 years old were on the roll for March 8 general elections.

"PAS will be waiting for these people to show up during the elections, to congratulate them for living up to this ripe age, if at all they exist," said party official Roslan Shahir.

"Our worry is that if we don't expose these things then other people will appear on behalf of them to vote," he told a press conference.

He urged the Election Commission to look into the presence allegedly of five names on the electoral roll for Rembau in Negeri Sembilan whose ages are between 109 to 119 years.

If the voters are still alive, they would have born between 1880 and 1899.

Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's son-in-law, Khairy Jamaluddin, is facing PKR's Badrul Hisham Shaharin in the parliamentary seat.

40 voters in same address

“We will continue to expose these with the hope that the EC fulfills its responsibility of clarifying and correcting these doubtful matters,” said Roslan.

PAS, in a loose alliance with two other opposition parties, is hoping to deprive the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition of a two-thirds majority for the first time in history.

Roslan said that in some cases up to 40 voters were registered in the same house address, and called on the Election Commission to immediately investigate these irregularities.

Activists have criticised electoral authorities ahead of the polls, accusing them of not cleaning up electoral rolls and refusing to abolish postal votes, which it says are manipulated.

The Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (Bersih) last November gathered some 40,000 people for a rare mass rally in the capital to demand electoral reforms.