Chinese voters left out of electoral rolls....

Selangor PAS today claimed that the Election Commission (EC) had failed to include many eligible voters on its latest supplementary electoral rolls, especially Chinese voters.

Selangor PAS secretary Mohd Khairuddin Othman said at a press conference that they discovered that 243 Chinese voters who had registered under the Paya Jaras state constituency were left out of the updated rolls.

He said this only added credence to concerns that the EC had not done its job in updating the electoral rolls, while at the same time allowing the rolls to be abused by interested parties.

“The supplementary electoral rolls have been abused by certain parties to bring in voters who are clearly not qualified to become voters in Selangor,” he said.

Khairuddin also accused the EC of deliberately putting up a supplementary roll which did not have the complete address of voters.

“This has made it difficult for PAS' election machinery to trace the location of those who had registered as new voters,” he said.

Opposition politicians kicked up a major fuss over the past few days, especially after Malaysiakini ran an article highlighting the inclusion of a Permanent Resident (PR) card holder on the supplementary roll.

Selangor PAS has also come up with its own data on the controversy, claiming to have found at least 1,100 names of PR holders on the updated roll.

The objection period for the latest supplementary roll closed yesterday.

PAS Selangor mengemukakan sebanyak 1,860 bantahan kepada Suruhanjaya Pilihanraya Selangor (SPR) dalam proses bantahan Rang Daftar Pemilih Tambahan (RDPT) bagi suku ke-2 tahun 2011 yang berakhir semalam.

Setiausahana Mohd Khairuddin Othman berkata, mereka menemui beberapa perkara penting, antaranya RDPT didakwa dengan sengaja tidak disertakan alamat lengkap pengundi.

"Ini menyukarkan jentera pilihanraya PAS untuk mengesan lokasi mereka-mereka yang mendaftarkan diri sebagai pengundi baru," kata Khairuddin.

Beliau juga mendakwa, rang tersebut juga disalahguna oleh pihak tertentu untuk membawa masuk pengundi yang jelas tidak berkelayakan sebagai pengundi di Selangor.

Khairuddin juga mendakwa SPR gagal memasukkan nama pengundi yang berkelayakan di dalam RDPT, yang kebanyakannya pengundi Cina.

Sementara itu, PAS awal petang tadi mendakwa mengesan 1,100 penduduk PR di Selangor yang dimasukkan ke dalam daftar pemilih layak mengundi.

Pengarah Jabatan Pilihan Raya Pemuda PAS Mohd Sany Hamzah berkata, maklumat itu mengukuhkan dakwaan bahawa masalah itu mungkin lebih daripada 'kecuaian teknikal' Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara (JPN).

source:malaysiakini

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