Comment by Vernon Aji Kedit
1. PKR Betong Division did a Voter Verification Exercise
last weekend, May 1 to May 3, at Betong. The exercise was to help voters check
and verify their voting status. Volunteers from KL and Kuching came along and
set up counters in the town areas to assist voters to check their status.
2. This exercise was necessary as PKR Betong discovered
that there are many discrepancies when comparing the voter lists of 2013 with
the latest voter list of 2014 available.
We discovered that 644 new names were added to the new
voter list of N.31 Layar for 2014. In a constituency of 8,838 voters, 644 new
names is an increase of more than 15%! That is a lot of newly registered voters
within less than a year.
Some of these 644
names could be genuine newly registered voters, or voters who had transferred
their voting addresses back to Layar. However, we will not discount that some
could be phantom voters, and so PKR is now aggressively checking for any
strange names appearing in the localities of 28 polling districts in Layar.
3. We also discovered that 322 names that were voting in
the General Election of 2013 list in N.31 Layar have been removed and now do
not appear in the latest 2014 list.
When we checked these 322 names against the Election
Commission portal's online registration, we found that 109 voters had been
transferred out of N.31 Layar. Some were moved to neighbouring constituencies
like Bukit Saban, Saribas or Engkilili.
Some were moved to far away places like Baram and some
even to West Malaysia. We need to verify that these voters had indeed asked to
be transferred or if they were moved without their knowledge by the Election
Commission.
4. The balance of
213 names from the 322 names that were removed from the latest 2014 list were
listed as "Record Not Found". These people are presumed dead, but can
there have been so many deaths within a year in Layar?
Or could some of them have been de-registered and removed
off the voting list without their knowledge?
5. The red flag and biggest alarm bell was when we
compared the 2013 figures with 2014, we found that the difference in total of
voters is only two new voters, but surprisingly hundreds of voters within N.31
Layar have been moved from their localities to other localities situated miles
and hours away.
This would be devastating for many voters as they would
not be able to cast their vote on polling day if they did not have
transportation to go to their new polling stations, or are not in time to reach
their new polling stations before balloting is officially closed at 12 noon.
We cannot explain these anomalies but we are checking to
make sure that these voters who have been moved or de-registered are aware of
their voting status so that the we can take appropriate action to remedy the
situation.
6. I urge all voters in N.31 Layar to either contact me
on facebook to check their voting status or to go directly to the Election
Commission website, www.spr.gov.my, and check their status online at
http://daftarj.spr.gov.my/DAFTARJ/. - May 12, 2015
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