PETALING JAYA, JUNE 5- A police report has been made against a BN assemblyman for allegedly bribing 25 election officers in return for their postal votes, which he purportedly used to mark for himself.
This report was lodged by an election officer last Wednesday, PKR strategy director Rafizi Ramli claimed today, citing this as further proof the May 5 general election was riddled with fraud.
“On April 29, 2013 at around 5.30pm, 24 other election officers who were to be on duty on election day and I were summoned by YB Nawi bin Mohamed, the Hulu Besut candidate…” a copy of the police report reads.
“We were ordered by YB Nawi to submit our unmarked postal votes [to] Hjh Azizah Ibrahim…and afterwards we were paid RM100 each.”
According to the report, the election officer and three others asked for their ballot papers the following day, out of guilt over what she felt was a violation of the Elections Act.
“Once our ballot papers were returned to us, I found that the ballot papers had been marked, without our consent or knowledge,” she wrote in the report.
She added that when she cast her ballot, the officers did not mark her finger with indelible ink.
“I’m extremely unsatisfied as my ballot paper was marked without our consent,” she said in the report.
The name of the complainant was, however, blacked out in the copy of the police report provided to the media.
Rafizi, who heads the party’s #SiasatPRU13 investigation team, said today it was unlikely this incident of postal vote bribing was an isolated case.
“With the postal votes and early votes numbering to over 500,000 across the country, the figure is significant enough to have influenced the results of the general election,” said Rafizi at the PKR headquarters here today.
“This is why we are firm in believing the general election was not valid and that the results were marred by fraud, and this is why we will continue with the June 15 rally.”
He added that Pakatan intended to provide the 10 days’ notice of the rally, tomorrow, in accordance with the Peaceful Assembly Act 2010.
He said he would also begin filing the election petition on June 10.
