Seorang bekas anggota tentera mendakwa, beliau telah menanda ribuan kertas undi pos semasa bertugas sebagai kerani tadbir ketika pilihan raya ketujuh dijalankan. Kamarulzaman Ibrahim, 53, mendakwa beliau bersama beberapa lagi rakannya diarahkan supaya berbuat demikian oleh pegawai pemerintahnya.
Beliau mengaku berbuat demikian sepanjang tiga hari menjalankan tugas berkenaan di Kem Terendak, Melaka.
Katanya, beliau telah menanda kertas undi berkenaan "sehingga lenguh tangan" dan turut menandatangan setiap borang yang dikepilkan bersama kertas undi tersebut.
Bercakap dalam sidang media di ibu pejabat PAS hari ini, Kamarulzaman berkata, beliau berbuat demikian kerana "sekadar menurut perintah." Selain Kamarulzaman, turut tampil membuat pendedahan hari ini ialah dua orang lagi anggota dan seorang pegawai tentera.
Jadi ruang untuk manipulasi memang terlalu besar," katanya yang turut mendedahkan bahawa beliau turut diarahkan untuk memangkah undi bagi pembangkang.
"Sebab itu memang ada tempat yang PAS menang dengan undi pos," katanya yang menambah, kertas undi yang dibekalkan ke kem berkenaan bukanlah untuk sesuatu kawasan pilihan raya sahaja.
Selain Kamarulzaman, turut tampil membuat pendedahan hari ini ialah Mohamed Nasir Ahmad yang pertama kali muncul pada awal bulan ini dengan dakwaan berhubung penyalahgunaan undi pos di Kem Sandakan pada 1986. Mohamed Nasir Ahmad, 50, mendakwa pernah memangkah lebih 400 kertas undi pos dalam tugasnya di kem itu.
Apa yang menghairankannya, tidak sampai 100 orang daripada setiap batalion didakwa telah mendaftar sebagai pengundi pos, namun kertas undi tetap dikeluarkan atas nama mereka, dakwanya lagi. Tambahnya, kertas undi berkenaan mungkin dikeluarkan untuk anggota yang bakal bersara dan menjalani latihan peralihan.
"Mereka ini duduk berterabur di serata negeri. Mana ada masa untuk balik ke kem," katanya lagi yang berkata anggota tentera telah menerima arahan melalui perintah tetap supaya tidak terlibat dalam politik.
"Kita tidak ambil penting sangat apa yang kita buat itu. Bila ada gelombang BERSIH, barulah kita ada kesedaran," katanya lagi.
Turut bercakap dalam sidang media tersebut ialah seorang bekas pegawai tentera, Mejar (B) Risman Mastor dan seorang bekas anggota komando tentera udara, Mohd Kamil Omar.
Mohd Kamil mendakwa, beliau pernah ditawarkan satu "habuan" oleh pegawai atasannya untuk tugas menanda "sekotak kertas undi." Mohd Kamil bagaimanapun mendakwa, beliau tidak menjalankan tugas berkenaan kerana mengetahui perkara itu "tidak betul."
Risman(kiri) pula mendakwa beliau pernah menanda kertas undi ketika bertugas semasa pilihan raya dijalankan pada tahun 1978. "Tapi saya tidak ingat berapa sebab nak cepat," katanya lagi yang menganggarkan jumlah yang ditanda itu didakwa tidak lebih daripada 100 kertas undi. Risman yang bersara pada tahun 1996 itu mendakwa telah berbuat demikian ketika bertugas di Kem Majidee, Johor.
Mengulas dakwaan yang dilakukan bekas tentera berkenaan, ketua pemuda PAS Johor Suhaizan Kaiat berkata pergerakan itu akan meneruskan usaha mendedahkan masalah dalam sistem pengundian pos.
Mekanisme sedia ada tidak membolehkan SPR dan juga wakil parti politik mengesan kesemua kertas undi yang dibekalkan kepada pengundi pos, katanya. Beliau juga berharap kerajaan akan dapat melaksanakan perubahan ke atas sistem pilihan raya, sebelum pilihan raya ke-13 dijalankan.
Ex-soldiers admit to postal vote fraud...
Postal vote manipulation has been a common practice in the military for many years - so it seems - now that more retired military personnel are speaking up. Now, four ex-military personnel have confessed to committing election fraud - the same way an ex-army man said he did so earlier this month.
The four, who had served at army and air force bases across the country, say they marked thousands of postal votes in three separate general elections between 1978 and 1999.
The four - Major (Rtd) Risman Mastor, Kamarulzaman Ibrahim, Mohamed Nasir Ahmad and Mohd Kamil Omar - said they were ordered by their commanding officers to mark postal votes for the hundreds and thousands of personnel who were out in the field.
Kamarulzaman, who was a clerk working at the Terendak army camp in Malacca, said he was ordered to spend three days marking thousands of ballot papers during the 1986 general election.
The 53-year-old said he was given three pens of different colours, which he used alternately to sign the postal votes in the absence of the army personnel who were on their tour of duty.
“For example, I would use a blue pen to sign for one serviceman and a black pen to sign for his wife. I was also ordered to mark votes for the opposition,” he said at a press conference hosted at the PAS headquarters by the party's youth wing.
When asked how many postal votes he signed, Kamarulzaman said he could not remember the exact number but was sure that it ran into the thousands.
“If you want to say how many, let's just say my hand went numb (from signing the ballot papers). I basically voted for soldiers from all over the country.”
'It was the wrong thing to do'
Kamil, a retired Air Force commando based at the Butterworth Air Force base, claimed he was offered a “reward” if he complied with the order to mark a box full of postal votes during the 1999 general election. The 21-year veteran however refused to carry out the order, saying that he realised it was not right for him to mark ballots for his colleagues.
“They gave me a box, and expected me to mark all the ballots in 30 minutes. I realised it was wrong,” said the 49-year-old, adding that he has no idea what the “reward” was since he did not carry out the order.
Nasir, 50, who was a clerk based in Sandakan during the 1986 general election, said he and another colleague were told to split over 900 postal votes between them to be marked on behalf of their fellow soldiers. He pointed out that being in the military, orders are orders and that soldiers were “not too bothered” about politics.
“Even after retirement, we didn't care so much about politics. But when Bersih came about, we started to realise that what we did was not right,” he said.
Risman stressed that this practice went as far back as the 1978 general election, when he and nine others were ordered to go through around 200 sacks - each containing 10 postal votes - during his time at the Kampung Sawah army camp in Port Dickson. “I did it just that one time... I don't remember the figures but I believe there were about 10 (ballots) in each sack. In effect there were just 10 of us actually voting,” he said.
Their expose today is the second after an ex-army man came forward earlier this month, making a similar claim that he was ordered to mark postal votes for other personnel.
source:malaysiakini
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