PKR Wanita asks EC where does the ink come from

PKR Wanita vice chairman Voon Shiak Ni, expressing her concern, said that Election Commission chairman Aziz Yusof has failed to say where the indelible ink would be sourced.

She said Aziz was only telling that the ink was being used in the elections in other countries.

"He did also not say the specification on the source and content of the ink which can amount to non-transparency. Further, there is no specification on how the ink is to be applied, for example, on which finger.

"If there is no specification, it opens up the whole process to another form of manipulations of the voters and the voting system.

"The specifications should be disclosed to avoid irregularities during the process of voting and to close all rooms for manipulations of voters and voting system," Voon said.

On the issue of advance voting, she asked who are to monitor or supervise the process when the soldiers and police cast their votes.

"Will there be an independent bodies to supervise the process of advance voting?" she asked.

She said the results of advance voting be counted and announced immediately to avoid manipulation.

"We don't want to see that the results be counted and announced after the results of the ordinary voting have been counted and announced as in the case of postal voting," she said.

"We want to know whether the commission would be announcing the results immediately after they have been counted?" she asked.