MORE than 50 voters registered under the Lembah Pantai constituency have allegedly been moved without their knowledge to the Sungai Besar constituency.

PKR Lembah Pantai Youth chief Fahmi Fadzil said they discovered 10 such cases of “phantom voters”, and confirmed four of them.

The four cases were of residents of the People’s Housing Project (PPR) flat in Lembah Pantai.

Three were moved to Kampung Tali Air 8 in Sekinchan and the fourth to Taman Aman in Sungai Besar.

The cases were discovered by Fahmi and his team a month ago after cross-checking objections by Sekinchan’s incumbent assemblyman, Ng Suee Lim, with the draft electoral roll.

Ng objected to 490 new voters registered in Sekinchan from the draft supplementary electoral roll in the first quarter of last year.

Of the 490 voters, Fahmi found 56 voters from Lembah Pantai faced objections in the first quarter and 53 cases in the third quarter.

The voters claimed they were approached by unidentified individuals as they were renewing their MyKad at an Urban Transformation Centre (UTC) in Pudu.

One voter, V.S.M., said three individuals promised that aid would be given monthly for single mothers and people with disabilities in return for handing over a photocopy of their MyKad and filling up a form.

“This happened at UTC Pudu. They said they would help widowers by giving a monthly supply of food. Plus, they also told me that, since my daughter is disabled, I should apply for it,” she said in a press conference at the PKR Lembah Pantai office today.

V.S.M. said she has lived in Lembah Pantai for 40 years.

Another voter, V.C., said that she was given RM20 when she filled the form and was promised another RM100 if she turned up at the UTC on polling day.

“They said a bus would pick us up on election day… they said they promised to give us RM100.

“They said come to Puduraya, the bus will come and go somewhere,” she said.

Suspicions raised

Fahmi, who is also PKR Communications director, said these voters now have no idea where to vote.

“Almost 490 people were moved to Kampung Sungai Leman, and 56 were from Lembah Pantai. Our suspicion is that the whole bulk of voters moved from Lembah Pantai were moved using (the above) modus operandi but we cannot verify the (details of the) other 440 people.”

He said some of these voters were moved twice on the electoral roll as their applications in the first quarter were rejected by Ng. 

“What I’m worried about is that 100% of voters in Sungai Leman are Malays. How were people who have no ties to Sekinchan moved? Who is responsible for this?” Fahmi said.

He also raised suspicion about the Election Commission’s role in this, eluding to the agency discontinuing the dissemination of soft copies of the electoral roll last year. 

“These are phantom voters. They were moved illegally. Checks with the EC showed that these four people were objected to by Ng.

“That is why the EC blocked us from getting a soft copy. Is this what they want to hide?”  

Fahmi said he and the four voters would lodge a police report later today. 

Ng, who has held the Sekinchan state seat since 2004, began objecting to voters since late 2016.

His objections triggered alarm in other opposition constituencies, leading to individual parties doing manual checks of electorates. 

In 2008, the number of voters in Lembah Pantai was 56,650. In 2013, it increased to 72,396.

Lembah Pantai now has 78,000 voters, with Malays making up 56%, Chinese (22%), Indians (18%) and others (4%). – March 17, 2018.