DAP has accused the Election Commission (EC) of “playing dirty” by manipulating the electoral roll to give advantage to the four-party Gabungan Parti Sarawak that is seeking a fresh mandate in the December 18 elections.

The party said the EC is moving voters around by changing their voting stations.

Sarawak DAP chairman Chong Chieng Jen, who is contesting in Padungan, and Violet Yong, who is defending her Pending seat, this morning claimed that the electoral roll is “not clean” and that the DAP had been shortchanged by the movements.

Yong said it’s “a dirty tactic” and that GPS is “trying to manipulate the voters to their advantage”.

The DAP pair even produced a voter in the Pending constituency, Teng Lung Kai, and claimed he had his voting station at a primary school in Kenyalang Park in Kuching moved to his hometown of Sarikei, a town in central Sarawak 148km away.

Teng was originally from Sarikei but had since moved to live in Kuching and “in the last two or three elections” had cast his vote at the same primary school.

Chong said Teng, and his wife, discovered the shift when Yong was campaigning in the residential area.

Yong said in just half an hour of her walkabout in the estate, she found three such cases, including that of Teng.

“Voters have had their place of voting changed without their knowledge and authority,” she said.

Yong said that in one other case she uncovered, a female voter in the Kota Sentosa constituency found her voting station is now in Sibuti, a small rural town in northern Sarawak some 480km away. She had previously cast her vote at the 4½ mile Jalan Penrissen Chinese primary school.

“We have a real case (of voter manipulation) here,” Yong said, saying it shows how unfair the election process is. – December 7, 2021.