PETALING JAYA, MAY 29- PKR today produced more police reports on the alleged electoral fraud that happened during the recent general election.
This time, PKR strategy director Rafizi Ramli cast doubts on how the postal and advance voting system were conducted.
Speaking at a press conference held at the party headquarters, Rafizi produced two police reports filed by PKR agents for discrepancies that occurred at the Alor Gajah and Grik parliamentary seats.
In the police report lodged for the Alor Gajah seat, Rafizi said that PKR agent Abu Hussin Tamby alleged that on April 30 he found several Election Commission (EC) agents counting advance voting ballots at the Alor Gajah police headquarters.
Abu Hussin was said to have seen this happening when he was escorting several advance voting ballot boxes to the police headquarters, where the advance and postal ballots were kept for the said parliamentary seat.
“The election laws clearly say that the ballots should only be counted on the polling day, which was May 5. So why were the EC officers counting the ballots days earlier?” asked Rafizi.
On the report for the Grik parliamentary seat, PKR agent Shairi MD Tajuddin lodged a police report alleging that advance ballot boxes from the Pengkalan Hulu army camp (PGA Batallion 18) did not arrive at 5pm, as promised by EC officials.
“Shairi waited till 7pm but the ballot boxes still did not arrive. So he immediately lodged a police report saying that the ballots may have been compromised.
“The EC officer in charge also supported his police report and disqualified the ballots when it arrived for the final tally.
“Although the ballots were disqualified, it shows how dubious and cartoonish the whole electoral process was being conducted,” said Rafizi.
More power for EC to help BN?
The newly minted Pandan MP also said that he doubted that Pakatan Rakyat only managed to garner up 15% votes from the advance and postal votes – the opposition’s record low.
This time around, there were about 500,000 voters who cast their ballots via post or advance voting.
Rafizi said with all the allegations of irregularities, the integrity of this half a million voters could be questioned.
“Before this, we could get at least 30% support from postal votes. Even for my seat, only eight votes out of 126 advance ballots were cast in my favour. It does not make sense,” said Rafizi.
On a related matter, Rafizi questioned the EC’s rationale in seeking more powers from the Parliament to remove names from the electoral roll, should they be registered under dubious addresses.
“I dare say that in light of Pakatan winning with between 20,000 to 30,000 majority votes in certain areas, the EC is afraid that the urban voters may want to change their addresses and vote in their hometowns instead.
“If that happens, that will be the end of Barisan Nasional as in many areas we lost with narrow margins,” he said.
Two days ago, EC deputy chairman Wan Ahmad Wan Omar said that the electoral body was planning to seek power to “remove” voters who do not live at the address stated, and update the registration in accordance with the address listed in their MyKad.
More rallies planned
Meanwhile, PKR MP Johari Abdul, who is also the main organiser of the Black 505 rallies, repeated the demand that the entire EC top officials resign for failing to ensure free and fair 13th general election.
He also said that the new EC officials should be selected by a joint committee, participated by both Barisan Nasional and Pakatan representatives.
“Pending the appointment of the new EC officials, the government must stop all re-delineation exercise or any amendments to the electoral laws.
“We also demand by-elections at the 30 parliamentary seats that the results are disputed,” he said.
Johari announced that the next Black 505 rally would be held in Perlis (June 10), followed by Kedah (June 11), Kelantan (June 12) and Johor (June 14).
