More suspiciously old voters found in Miri

Desmond Davidson Desmond Davidson Updated 8 years ago · Published on 27 Mar 2018 5:22PM · 5 Comments

Ting Tiong Choon says the case of 150-year-old Mohd Said Mohd Arshad is a typical case of a phantom voter. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, March 27, 2018.

AFTER the discovery of a 150-year-old voter still on the electoral roll in Miri, closer scrutiny of the roll by Sarawak PKR found there were 146 voters aged 95 and above and 113 aged 100 and above.

“The oldest we found was 116 years’ old,” its deputy youth chief, Jeffery Mok Hui Chung, said in Kuching today.

Mok said he made the check late last week after the party was notified of a voter registered under the name Mohd Said Mohd Arshad and born on January 1, 1868, still on the electoral roll.

He questioned the status of these voters.

“Are they still alive?” Mok, who admitted they had yet to physically check these voters themselves, asked.

“We are not challenging the authenticity of the eligibility of all these voters, but SPR (the Malay acronym of the Election Commission) is urged to do a proper and prudent screening of the voters’ list before the next general election to ensure that the electoral process is clean.”

Mok said the screening “should have been done long before the eleventh hour to the election”.

“If this matter is left unattended, there will be a high chance that these voters’ names will be included in the coming general election, and that such a voters’ list would be used by irresponsible parties, for reasons best known to themselves.”

DAP’s Pujut assemblyman, Ting Tiong Choon, yesterday said the registration was a “typical case of (registration for) a phantom voter”.

The EC’s records also showed Mohd Said was registered as a voter in 1989 at the age of 121.

Pujut, together with the Senadin and Piasau seats, make up the Miri parliamentary seat.

Mok said while PKR acknowledged that some of the state’s senior citizens could live long lives, the “number of them living to over a hundred years old is too hard to believe”.

“We therefore seek clarification from EC as to the status of these voters, and the names of the voters that are no longer alive to be struck out from the electoral roll immediately to ensure a clean roll.”

Ting said he was told by the National Registration Department office in Miri that the 150-year-old Mohd Said was still on their record.

The NRD however told Ting there was “no evidence Mohd Said had made his birth certificate, nor an IC (identity card)”.

Ting said he believed Mohd Said was registered by a Barisan Nasional political party as a phantom voter at a time when they held the federal seats and all the state seats there.

He checked because he was suspicious of Mohd Said’s old IC registration number, and the last four digits of his new MyKad, which he said was “inconsistent” with the norms in Sarawak.

The last four digit on the MyKad was 0069. Dr Ting said the first of the last four should either be a 5 or a 6.

He had also requested for Mohd Said’s address, only to be told there was none on record.

“Now I wonder how many such voters are on the electoral roll,” Ting said. – March 27, 2018.

Sign up or sign in here to comment.

Comments

  • Quick lodge a report, then get court order to compel EC to fix this, else BN phantom voters will steal the election

    Posted 8 years ago by Kuasa Rakyat · Reply

  • If The Malaysian opposition spent as much time building a democratic egalitarian, visionary prospectus for their parties as they do snooping and sniffing for electoral fraud then this would be a wonderful nation. As it is we have a collection of unimaginative, selfish, multiple losers who are trying to con the Malaysian public into thinking they have something of value to offer. What is truly astounding is that thanks to the critical skills of the opposition we know everything that is wrong with BN. What we DONT KNOW is IF and HOW the opposition will fix anything. If Selangor and Penang are any indication then we know they will fix nothing. All they want is the status quo to remain, but with them in control of the money

    Posted 8 years ago by Dennis Da Menace · Reply

    • Yawn.

      Posted 8 years ago by Tommy richard · Reply

  • I am absolutely disappointed with Sarawak PKR. Don't they know that dedak is healthy food that increases the life span of Sarawakian. It is said that dedak kills cancer cells and white brain cells - and increase longevity. Sarawakian that eats plenty of dedak think less and lives longer. Apa lagi PKR mau???

    Posted 8 years ago by Chris Ng · Reply

  • hmmm must be the dedak they eat - can be so old mehhh

    Posted 7 years ago by Chris Ng · Reply