Former Sabah National Registation Department director Ramli Kamaruddin claimed he embarked on recruiting phantom voters after personally receiving instructions from then-deputy home minister Megat Junid Megat Ayub.
Testifying at the royal commission of inquiry (RCI) on immigrants in Sabah today, Ramli claimed he was instructed to issue an identity card (IC) receipt to immigrants using the details of people who are already in the electoral roll but had never voted before.
“I received a call two weeks before the 1994 Sabah state election to meet Megat Junid at a hotel. I was instructed to help to ensure a state government endorsed by the federal government would win.
“I was instructed to issue NRD receipts using the name and IC number of voters already in the electoral roll with the sole purpose of allowing them to vote,” he said.
NRD receipts are temporary identity card slips that are issued prior to the granting of a proper identity card. This document is sufficient to allow for voting, he explained.
Nigel Aw
This is the truth we have known all along. We must never vote for party Malaya again.
ReplyDeleteJika Parti Malaya yang benar memperjuangkan hak milik dan kepentingan rakyat, apa salahnya memberi sokongan?
DeleteHow about Mahathir?
ReplyDeleteNRD receipts are temporary identity card slips that are issued prior to the granting of a proper identity card. This document is sufficient to allow for voting, he explained.
ReplyDeleteAdakah ID sementara sah untuk mengundi?
SPR masih diragui keadilannya.
ReplyDeleteSPR should ensure clean and fair election.
ReplyDeleteRCI harus menjalan tanggung jawab dengan membuat siasatan yang sewajarnya.
ReplyDeleteSPR kena pastikan tiada pengundi hantu wujud.
ReplyDeletepastikan senarai pengundi bersih.
ReplyDeleteTan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin today denied allegations by PAS that Barisan Nasional (BN) paid 750 students to become phantom voters in Merlimau by-election here tomorrow.
ReplyDelete“Other media have not reported it and EC (Election Commission) has not received any report,” the deputy prime minister said during a press conference today.
ReplyDeleteAbdul Aziz stressed, however, that action would be taken if the allegations are found to be true.
ReplyDelete“If a person is caught posing as a voter then EC will take decisive actions,” he added.
ReplyDeleteAbdul Aziz also reminded that all parties that the campaign period expires at midnight tonight.
He also asked voters to come early to cast their ballots and not be emotional at the polling stations.
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DeleteThe by-election will be a straight fight between PAS’s Yuhaizat Abdullah and Umno’s Roslan Ahmad.
BN currently controls 23 of the state assembly seats, while DAP is the only opposition with five.
DeleteMerlimau is located within the Jasin parliamentary constituency, a stronghold of BN, which won all the five state seats in Election 2008.
DeletePolling runs from 8am to 5pm, and the result is expected to be announced at 8pm.
The term phantom voters actually refer to electors who come to cast their votes at polling stations using false identity cards under the names of electors in the EC’s electoral rolls for those stations. . Fraudulent practices and impersonation like this is an offence under the Election Offences Act 1954 and is punishable by imprisonment of not less than 2 years or a fine not exceeding RM. 5,000 or both.
ReplyDeleteThe registration of electors and revisions to the electoral roll are undertaken in a transparent manner and in accordance with Article 119 of the Federal Constitution and other prescribed laws. Allegation of phantom voters in the Electoral Roll is misleading and is the result of misunderstanding among some.
DeleteAs mentioned earlier, there are no phantom voters in the Electoral Roll. Nevertheless, the EC undertakes on a continuous basis numerous efforts to ensure that the Electoral Roll is clean and up-to-date. These include efforts to clean the Roll of duplicate records, the presence of dead individuals as electors as well as corrections to names, localities, identity card numbers, gender and religion. The EC had:
Deletea. The State Election Offices collect details of deaths from burial/death certificates issued by the Police Stations and Hospitals to get up-to-date information on deaths rather than rely on JPN which may pass the same information to the EC rather late;
Deleteb. Through its Clients Day Programme, which is held across the country, the EC officials always request the next of kin of the deceased to submit a copy of the death certificate for the purpose of cleaning the Principal Electoral Roll;
Deletec. In the case of the State of Sarawak, the State Office sent its teams to the longhouses to identify any member of the longhouse community who have died but not reported to the National Registration Department (NRD);
DeleteRegistered electors who return home to vote in the polling centre where their name appears in the Electoral Roll as an elector are not phantom voters. Their right to vote is guaranteed under the Constitution. They are to vote in the polling centres where their names would appear in the electoral roll where they registered as voters.
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