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 daily 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 wish it to be? What kind of detergent do you need to use?" EC arch Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof told a press conference in Putrajaya today.
He stressed that in annoy 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 only accept citizens with blue MyKad as voters.
"As for how they got a temperament card, that's (under a purview of) a National Registration Department (NRD)," he said, soaking his hands purify of probable inaccuracies.
Before a names have been entered into 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, only then you register," Abdul Aziz explained after rising a commission's dedicated 13th general choosing website.
He additionally appealed to members of a open to be proactive as good as check their details for discrepancies as good as update a EC with their ultimate details as good as addresses.
For this, he said, electorate could SMS, email, phone in or go by a EC's new dedicated GE13 website at www.pru13.gov.my.
No criticism upon Sabah RCI
Asked to criticism upon a ongoing RCI, Abdul Aziz refused to hold upon a testimonies of a witnesses.
"I have been advised not to criticism as a proceedings 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 commission might ask," he said.
The RCI hearing in Kota Kinabalu has to date featured ban testimonies upon a awarding of citizenship to illegal immigrants as good as their subsequent registration as voters.
Asked because a Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) was not declared as an choosing observer, Abdul Aziz pronounced it was a EC's prerogative to choose whoever it wanted, as good as he went upon to contend it was not because Suhakam had any sick feeling toward a commission.
"(Suhakam chief) Hasmy Agam (right) is my friend too."
He combined that to illustrate distant 16 NGOs have been allocated as internal observers while five ASEAN countries as good as a grouping's secretariat would be entrance as general observers.
'Malaysia, Australia poles apart'
The EC arch additionally dismissed Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's early announcement of choosing dates as insignificant to Malaysian politics as both countries were poles apart as good as used incompatible electoral guidelines. "We have opposite laws, opposite systems as good as opposite 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 general election, together with news, audience rates, enforce! ment upd ates, nomination census data as good as alternative information as good as a live stream of all choosing by casting votes results.
He pronounced a new site costs less then RM100,000 out of a sum RM400 million budgeted for a commission's GE13 budget. This bill is a whopping RM150 million 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 additional losses for new types of voting, overseas choosing by casting votes as good as to handle as good as increasing number of voters, which will sum 13.3 million as opposite a 10 million electorate in 2008, after a ultimate registrants have been gazetted in March
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