By : MURIB MORPI
KOTA KINABALU : The routine of induction new names, deleting dead electorate or changing any sum of a purebred electorate have been all finished transparently in suitability with specific standard handling procedures (SOP) being used by a Election Commission (EC), according to a Chief Assistant Secretary of Information Technology, Shafie Sajat.
Testifying at a conference prior to to a Commission of Inquiry upon Illegal Immigrants in Sabah yesterday, he pronounced any changes done to a electoral roll would have to go by multiform processes prior to to they could be finalized as well as approved.
He pronounced a EC has 8 different SOPs used for induction new voters, which they employed formed upon a sort of voter applications, namely civilians, policemen, troops members as well as civilians residing outside of Sabah.
Every SOP requires any new duplicate to be cross-checked with a National Registration Department (NRD) to determine a citizenship status, age as well as residence of a applicant, he said.
Apart from a NRD, which serves as a categorical reference body, a EC additionally checks for a applicants' sum with a troops as well as armed forces (for troops as well as troops personnel) as well as other agencies such as a Public Services Department.
"All Malaysian adults elderly above 21 have been authorised to register ! as elect orate as well as as distant as a EC is endangered all a names which have been purebred have been all Malaysian adults whose standing was accurate by a NRD," he said, responding to a subject from a conducting military officer Manoj Kurup.
The EC additionally tried to keep a voter list as up to date as probable by intermittently reviewing any name as well as a sum with a NRD, to acknowledge as well as record any changes such as in a event a voter has died or moved from his or her voting district.
However, changes or improvement to any sum such as a voting district can usually be changed formed upon request from a electorate themselves.
As for a names of people who have died or lost their citizenship standing would be deleted after reception acknowledgment from a NRD.
"There have been multiform steps involved, first a NRD would provide us with a list of names (deceased or no longer Malaysian) any month as well as you will cross-checked a names with a database. If any of a names have been in a system, they will be proposed to be deleted as well as after a approval has been acquired from a EC committee, a names will be published for two weeks in gazetted places such a district office.
"If no objections have been received from any parties, a list would be submitted to a committee again to be finalized as well as then private henceforth from a system," he explained.
Apart from reception a list from a NRD, he pronounced a EC would additionally send a own list of names to be checked as well as accurate by a NRD at your convenience needed as well as to cross-check all a names in a database with a dialect annually.
The EC, he added, updates a database any quarter of a year by keying in a changes which have been finalized as well as authorized by a committee, together with improvement of a! address , IC series names etc as well as deleting a dead from a list.
Shafie pronounced a last refurbish he knew of was finished in a second half of last year, where there were a sum of 959,669 purebred electorate in Sabah.
He additionally provided a RCI with a detailed statistics of series of electorate for any state as well as parliamentary constituencies in Sabah from 1996 until a benefaction date.
He pronounced sum upon series of electorate for particular constituencies prior to to 1996 were available.
Shafie was a third declare called yesterday as well as a 58th declare who appeared prior to to a RCI so far. He will go on with his sworn statement when proceeding resumes today.
Earlier, chief assistant executive of Information Technology Department of NRD, Laila Abdul Majid testified which over 2.5 million births have been purebred in Sabah to date, together with non-citizen children.
She additionally informed which 1,794,994 ICs had been released to Malaysian adults in Sabah since 1963, together with over 66,000 since to foreigners whose citizenship applications had been approved.
To a question, she reliable which over 22,000 Sabah-born Malaysians were now residing in Johor.
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