January 30, 2013
Not Possible to have 100% Clean Electoral Roll, says EC Chief
by Hazlan Zakaria @www.malaysiakini.com
It is not probable for any nation to safeguard its electoral hurl is 100 percent clean, a Election Commission (EC) says, for a list will be affected by every day occurrences of deaths as good as changes in addresses as people move about a country.
"If I purify today, tomorrow someone dies as good as it is not purify again
"How purify do you want it to be? What kind of detergent do you need to use?" EC chief Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof told a press conference in Putrajaya today.
He stressed that in spite of revelations to a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) upon immigrants in Sabah, a electoral hurl for a state as good as for a rest of a nation was as purify as these could be made.
"Believe us, a electoral hurl is clean. As distant as a EC is concerned, you usually accept citizens with blue MyKad as voters.
"As for how they got a identity card, that's (under a reach of) a National Registration Department (NRD)," he said, soaking his hands purify of probable inaccuracies.
Before a names have been entered in to a roll, a EC carries out a "vigorous check" with a NRD to safeguard that those being registered have been citizens as good as have been alive.
"If it is okay, usually afterwards you register," Abdul Aziz explained after rising a commission's dedicated 13th ubiquitous choosing website.
He also appealed to members of a open to be proactive as good as check their sum for discrepancies as good as update a EC with their ultimate sum as good as addresses.
For this, he said, electorate could SMS, email, phone in or go through a EC's brand new dedicated GE13 website ! during < a href="http://www.pru13.gov.my">www.pru13.gov.my.
No criticism upon Sabah RCI
Asked to criticism upon a ongoing RCI, Abdul Aziz refused to touch upon a testimonies of a witnesses.
"I have been advised not to criticism as a record have been still starting on. Four EC officers have been watchful to testify as good as they will answer any as good as all questions that a elect may ask," he said.
The RCI conference in Kota Kinabalu has to date featured ban testimonies upon a awarding of citizenship to bootleg immigrants as good as their successive registration as voters.
Asked why a Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) was not named as an choosing observer, Abdul Aziz pronounced it was a EC's prerogative to select whoever it wanted, as good as he went upon to say it was not since Suhakam had any ill feeling toward a commission.
"(Suhakam chief) Hasmy Agam (right) is my crony too."
He combined that thus distant 16 NGOs have been appointed as internal observers while 5 ASEAN countries as good as a grouping's secretariat would be entrance as international observers.
'Malaysia, Australia poles apart'
The EC chief also discharged Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's early announcement of choosing dates as inconsequential to Malaysian politics as both countries were poles apart as good as used differing electoral guidelines. "We have different laws, different systems as good as different conventions."
Commenting serve upon a EC's dedicated GE13 website, Abdul Aziz pronounced it would be a one-stop portal for all things associated to a entrance ubiquitous election, together with news, turnout rates, enforcement updates, as! signment census data as good as alternative information as good as a live stream of all choosing by casting votes results.
He pronounced a brand new site costs less afterwards RM100,000 out of a total RM400 million budgeted for a commission's GE13 budget. This budget is a whopping RM150 million some-more than a price of GE12 in 2008.
Abdul Aziz attributed a arrogant price to inflation, ballooning staff as good as allowances as good as extra expenses for brand new types of voting, overseas choosing by casting votes as good as to hoop as good as augmenting series of voters, that will total 13.3 million as opposite a 10 million electorate in 2008, after a ultimate registrants have been gazetted in March
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