DAP shows video clip of alleged postal vote buying

DAP today exposed an alleged postal vote buying scheme by playing video footage taken by a DAP polling agent, and identifying the man involved.

Speaking at a press conference in Sibu, the party's state chairperson Wong Ho Leng said the man in the video clip is a health officer from the Sibu Municipal Council (SMC), surnamed Wong.

Bukit Assek incumbent Ho Leng also said the four women captured in the video are teachers who were engaged as election workers.

"I want SMC president Tiong Thai, deputy president Daniel Ngien as well as the Election Commission to answer," he said, adding that they needed to also explain why a health officer was in a prohibited area.

"I know many, many, teachers have sold their votes, they did not cast ballots themselves, but they are not brave enough to speak out," he added.

The video clip, lasting one minute and 32 seconds, was taken yesterday between 12noon and 1pm at Sanyan Building in the staircase between the 21st and 22nd floor, where postal voters cast their ballots on Wednesday.

Ho Leng also alleged that money has been pumped into Sarawak from Singapore and as far as Switzerland.

Yesterday, DAP released the clip to the media in which DAP alleged depicting suspected postal vote buying.

In the video clip, a man is said to have been caught on video at around noon receiving postal votes from four female voters, before suddenly realising his actions were being recorded.

The man quickly returned the ballots to the voters and tried to stop the DAP polling agent from monitoring the postal vote process.

DAP postal vote polling agent Mary Josephine Prittam Singh said that ballot papers should not be handed over to others, prompting her to believe that vote-buying was occurring at Wisma Sanyan.