THE Selangor government has cried foul after being told that the Election Commission (EC) had destroyed the electoral rolls from 1994 and 2003.

Menteri Besar Mohamed Azmin Ali said he was shocked to learn that data on the locality, names and addresses of 136,272 voters in the state, which had been used in EC’s delineation exercises in 1994 and 2003, had been wiped out.

“This is a serious matter. How can EC destroy official records used in delineation exercises and not keep any copies?

“These records are crucial for Selangor voters to exercise their right to check the authenticity of delineation exercises,” said Azmin in a Facebook post today.

The PKR deputy president said today’s Court of Appeal decision was equally disappointing as it did not give reasons for rejecting the state’s appeal in its application for documents from EC.

The Court of Appeal, chaired by Justice Mohd Zawawi Salleh, decided that the EC need not provide the electoral rolls used during the 1994 and 2003 delineation exercises.

The court also dismissed Selangor’s application to cross examine EC chairman Mohd Hashim Abdullah.

High Court judge Azizul Azmi Adnan ordered the EC to give the information pertaining the voters during the said delineation to Selangor on March 9, following last year’s petition by the state to ask the courts to compel the commission to produce the documents used in its delineation.

Among the documents sought by the state were those containing information on the 136,272 voters and the original documents used to register themselves as voters, and a computer software application, Electoral Geographical Information System, used in the state’s delineation exercises.

It also asked that EC produce the minutes of meetings showing how it had implemented a 2012 recommendation by a Parliamentary Select Committee to clean up electoral rolls nationwide. – July 20, 2017.