While a Election Commission should be since a little credit for receiving sure steps to clean up a electoral roll, it has unsuccessful to take any petrify movement opposite persons who have been trying to as well as have been still trying to try by artful means to get a electoral roll.
In a prolific meeting in between myself, as Project Director as well as DAP Election Strategist, with a Election Commission on Monday, 5thof November 2012, a Election Commission highlighted a couple of steps which they have taken as well as have been receiving in sequence to clean up a electoral roll.
One such beginning is to fix up a twelve series IC series of all military as well as armed forces electorate to check which these postal electorate were additionally not purebred regulating their twelve series IC number. Although this verification process is prolonged overdue, it should be welcomed as a necessary step in cleaning up a electoral roll. The decision of a EC to require all new armed forces as well as military postal voter applicants, starting from 2012, to include their twelve series IC series in their application forms, is additionally a sure step towards ensuring which these electorate have been not purebred twice in a electoral roll, once regulating their armed forces / policy temperament card series as well as once regulating their twelve series municipal temperament card number.
MERAP has identified most past cases of such stand in registrations as good as cases whereby an armed forces / postal voter has since their twelve series municipal IC to their spo! uses to be purebred as postal electorate as good as armed forces / postal electorate who list themselves as their own spouse in sequence to be purebred as postal electorate regulating their twelve series municipal IC numbers. Having a twelve series municipal IC verification, hopefully, will forestall such cases from happening again in a future. we was additionally sensitive which a Election Commission has taken movement to fix up a twelve series municipal IC numbers of all existing armed forces / military voters. As of 15thOctober 2012, there stays 411 military as well as 613 armed forces postal electorate whose twelve series municipal IC numbers have not been located.
However, what is unsatisfactory is which a Election Commission refuses to take any eccentric movement opposite those who have attempted to try by artful means to get a electoral rollother than stealing sure Assistant Registrars. For example, a EC found 60 electorate who had attempted to register as armed forces / military postal electorate AND as unchanging electorate in Quarter 2 2012 (refer to Appendix 1 for a sample). This is a clear defilement of Section 3 (1) (a) of a Election Offences Act 1954 which states which a chairman who 'knowingly makes any false matter on or in connection with any application to be placed on any register of electors' is guilty of committing an election offence which carries a limit jail sentence of 2 years or a limit fine of RM5000 or both. These electorate in subject clearly knows which it is an offense to register twice, once as a postal voter as well as an additional time as a unchanging voter since every voter has to acknowledgement which they have not purebred as a voter in an additional subdivision in Borang A Pendaftaran Pemilih (Appendix 2).
EC wakeful but IGNORES
The participation of insane parties as well as people who may have attempted to try by artful means to get a electoral hurl was additionally rescued in a Quarte! r 4 2011 electoral hurl since to a members of a Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) on Electoral Reform. The analysis comparing a Date of Birth as good as a Date of Application for all electorate found which 282,086 electorate were purebred prior to they incited 21. Indeed, there were electorate whose Date of Application were prior to their Date of Birth! (Appendix 3)
What is more worrying is a fact which a Election Commission knows of these attempts to try by artful means to get a electoral roll. The Election Commission admitted which they have revoked a standing a series of Assistant Registrars who attempted to try by artful means to get a electoral hurl by, for example, induction electorate who have already died. But this is not sufficient. It contingency take authorised movement opposite such parties / people in sequence to send a strong vigilance which a Election Commission is critical about progressing a integrity of a electoral hurl as well as to inhibit insane parties as well as people from trying to try by artful means to get a electoral roll.
For example, a DAP in Negeri Sembilan took a beginning to board a military inform in February 2012 to ask a Election Commission to investigate as well as charge a 2 Assistant Registrars whose standing as ARs were revoked by a EC since they were found to have attempted to register already defunct voters. But 9 months later, no movement has been taken, possibly by a Election Commission, a military or a Attorney General's Chambers.
As prolonged as such insane actions conducted by insane parties as well as people go on to go unpunished, attempts to try by artful means to get a electoral hurl will continue. If a Election Commission is in truth critical about preserving a integrity as well as accuracy of a electoral roll, it contingency not only devaluate a standing of insane Assistant Registrars as well as undo a annals of indeterminate registrations, it contingency additionally take petrify authorised movement to see those ob! liged fo r these manipulation attempts charged as well as punished underneath Section 3 of a Election Offences Act 1954.
When asked, a Election Commission admitted which to date, no one has been charged underneath this Section of a Election Offences Act for attempting to try by artful means to get a electoral roll.
Dr Ong Kian Ming is a Election Strategist for a DAP
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