MORE than 50 voters staying in a car sale lot and a multiracial family of 12 crammed into one house –these are among the more than 4,000 suspicious new voters that PKR alleged have been transferred and registered in the Wangsa Maju parliamentary constituency in Kuala Lumpur.

PKR treasurer Tan Yee Kew said if left unchecked, these new voters could easily impact on the outcome of the Wangsa Maju seat in the next general election. In 2013, PKR won the seat by 5,511 votes.

The 4,442 “suspicious” voters are part of the 13,462 new voters added to the electoral roll in Wangsa Maju between July 2016 and March 2017.

Of the total, 7,408 were registered as new voters living in addresses in Wangsa Maju. The remaining 6,054 were voters who supposedly transferred from outside Wangsa Maju to addresses in the constituency.

“The conspicuous spike in voters over a nine-month period prompted us to examine the data in detail and conduct a door-to-door survey of dubious addresses with large numbers of voters,” Tan said.

The team surveyed addresses in four polling districts – Taman Melati, Seksyen 1 Wangsa Maju, Gombak Utara and Wangsa Melati – to check where 4,804 new and transferred voters were added, she said.

“It was found that in these four districts, 222 houses and units of flats had abnormally high numbers of voters.

“When our volunteers went and checked, 80% of the occupants and house owners said they did not know the voters registered at these addresses. They also claimed they did not know that their addresses were being used.”

The survey team concluded that 33% of the 4,804 new and transferred voters in these four areas were likely phantom voters, she said.

By applying the same proportion of 33% to the 13,462 new and transferred voters in the whole of Wangsa Maju, PKR concluded that 4,442 are likely to be phantom voters, said Tan.

PKR also gave some of the more glaring examples of suspected phantom voters:

* Seven male and female Muslims living in a 580 sq feet flat with two bedrooms and one toilet. Based on their names in the electoral roll, they are not related and appear to come from different states.

* One man and four women who do not qualify for advanced voting as they are not police personnel but are registered at the Wangsa Maju Seksyen 1 police station.

* 12 Malays and two Indians registered at the same address in Wangsa Melawati.

* 52 registered in two lots in Gombak Utara. The survey team found that the address is a car lot.

“Such a high number of voters cannot possibly constitute a single household,” Tan said.

Tan said the party has identified certain individuals who registered the 13,462 new names at the addresses in Wangsa Maju.

“We are giving them one week to come forward. If they do not, we will publish their names and lodge a police report against them.” – July 20, 2017.