By Shannon Teoh
Apr 23, 2012
KUALA LUMPUR, Apr twenty-three Bersih indicted a Election Commission (EC) today of unwell to investigate 3.1 million electorate whose identity card (IC) addresses talk about from that in a electoral hurl despite having a report since 2002.
Speaking at a press discussion called by a electoral remodel movement, independent polls analyst Ong Kian Ming pronounced a EC was since this report for all states in a peninsula as well as additionally Kuala Lumpur in 2002 as well as a figure made up 37 per cent of a 8.3 million electorate purebred then.
The project director for a Malaysian Electoral Roll Analysis Project (MERAP) pronounced he has had a report since by a National Registration Department (NRD) to a EC prior to a implementation of a new registration system where all electorate have to be purebred according to a subdivision indicated by their IC addresses.
"The EC has failed to action upon this... to clean up a electoral hurl even yet a presence of these non-resident electorate contravenes Article 119 1(b) of a Federal Constitution that says a voter contingency be a proprietor in a subdivision he is choosing by casting votes in," he said.
Bersih steering committee part of Maria Chin Abdullah additionally pronounced this "shows serious problems in a electoral hurl that is a purpose of a EC to correct."
"They say they have been cleaning it up, so why have been these commentary still emerging? The EC group should renounce en confederation as well as let a new group step in to clean up a roll," she added.
Ong(picture)also pronounced his research found 65,455 "foreigners" in a electoral roll, almost 90 per cent of whom had IC numbers that showed they were Malaysian-born. Another 1! 06,743 e lectorate were deleted as well as 6,762 added to a electoral hurl without public display in between a finish of 2010 to a third quarter of 2011, he added.
The UCSI techer additionally pronounced a extra hurl for a final quarter of 2011 did not contain a common report about a series of electorate added or subtracted due to genocide or enrolment in security forces.
He pronounced that since a average of 20,000 deaths as well as a third Q3 2011 hurl display an surprising spike in military as well as armed forces enrolment to 9,000, this could add an additional 30,000 to 50,000 dubious names.
"Including a 100,000 identified by MERAP previously, there have been at least 3.4 million cases or about twenty-seven per cent of a stream electoral hurl that needs to be further investigated," he said.
EC chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof had pronounced final week Malaysia's electoral hurl was a cleanest in a world, as only 42,000 out of 12.6 million voters, or 0.3 per cent, were considered unverifiable.
But Ong pronounced Abdul Aziz should have checked a 100,000 already identified by MERAP as having ages upon top of 85 years old, gender unsuitable with their ICs, same names as well as similar birthdates, born overseas, Klang Valley electorate who do not have house addresses, postal electorate with regular ICs, spouses of policemen who have been postal voters, spouses of armed forces as well as military electorate who have a same gender, armed forces as well as military electorate upon top of early retirement age as well as armed forces as well as military postal electorate who have been upon top of recruitment age.
The credibility of a electoral hurl has been at large questioned since a Parliamentary Select Committee was set up late final year to demeanour in to electoral improvements.
The panel completed a six-month tenure as well as submitted a commentary to Parliament final week but a antithesis as well as polite m! ultitude have criticised it for not in specific recommendations upon how to clean up a voter registrar.
Bersih, a bloc of 84 NGOs, afterwards voiced it would reason a third convene for free as well as satisfactory elections upon Apr 28.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak had voiced a formation of a bipartisan polls committee in August 2011, after being condemned in a international press for his administration's clampdown upon Bersih's Jul 9 convene that drew tens of thousands to a streets of a capital.
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