Tarani Palani
PKR today alleged that the Election Commission (EC) has new ways to manipulate the electoral roll.
This new method, they claimed, used the legal means of creating “divisions” (Belah Bahagi) to move voters illegally into a different voting constituency.
There are fears that these additions will be to the benefit of the Barisan Nasional as this practice was allegedly rampant in Pakatan Rakyat-held Selangor.
PKR vice president Fuziah Salleh revealed this at a press conference today when highlighting EC’s “illegal gerrymandering” in the Subang parliamentary constituency.
According to the Election’s Act 1958, divisions were conducted in order to make marginal changes concerning the voter’s state constituency.
The division method is usually used to consolidate dispersed voters into voting districts. One voting district must have a maximum of 3,850 people and one polling station.
However, according to the law, the movement of these voters must be made within the same state constituency.
Fuziah today highlighted several cases in the Subang constituency where the division method was used to shift voters from their state constituency to another constituency.
In one case highlighted, there were seven voters who were registered in the Kota Damansara state constituency in the 2008 electoral roll but were moved to Bukit Lanjan state constituency in the 2010 electoral roll.
“There are cases where the movements have caused some voters to shift to a new parliamentary constituency as well,” she said.
She highlighted a few cases where voters were registered under the Kelana Jaya parliamentary constituency in 2008 but were registered under the Subang parliamentary constituency in 2010 electoral roll.
“The EC is using legal provisions to do illegal things,” she said.
Furthermore, she added that the EC can only conduct divisions once the delineation exercise is announced.
Increase of voters in Subang
The EC has denied rumours of on-going delineation exercise adding that it will only take place after the 13th general election, expected to be held anytime soon.
Fuziah, who is also the Kuantan MP, said that this was merely the tip of the iceberg and PKR will reveal more in a series of exposes.
She also raised doubts over the dubious 35 percent rise of voters in the Subang constituency since 2007.
She said the additions were inexplicable as voters appeared “from nowhere” into the gazetted electoral roll.
“The number of voters (in Subang) as of the third quarter of 2011 was 110,614.
“When the list is made public, there is usually an objection period. So, rationally speaking, the 110,614 is the maximum voters (in Subang, after the third quarter),” she said.
But the gazetted electoral roll according to the third quarter, stated that (Subang constituency) contained 113,978 voters, 3,000 more than the previous list.
“Where did the extra 3,364 voters come from,” she asked.
She said that the division method could be used to explain this irregularity.
She added that all the information was gathered when the electoral roll was scanned thoroughly.
Fuziah said the matter will be brought up to the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) overseeing electoral reforms.
Also at the press conference today was Subang MP R Sivarasa, who said he will take EC’s alleged abuse of power to the MACC next week.
PBS led by Pairin Kitingan must be punished for collaborating with UMNO for his own selfish interest. Sabahans must not vote for both UMNO and PBS. AS in Sarawak, the rural voters, be them Dayaks, Melanaus, Malays or Chinese, they must wake up now and kick out Taib Mahmud and his gangs of thieves.
Comment by Sazali Ismail — February 23, 2012 @ 3:17 PM |
Projek M:
“It was a project to dilute the Christian population of Sabah by flooding Sabah with Muslim immigrants who would be issued with Malaysian identity cards. And once they are the owners of Malaysian identity cards they can vote in the elections. And once there are more Muslim voters than Christian voters, the PBS ‘Christian’ government can be brought down. And this did happen, as we all now know. It is being used to reduce the non-Muslim population so that Umno can practically rule forever.”
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The dilution of the Christians in Sabah
Malaysia Today, Thursday, 14 October 2010
The ISA is not actually used to prevent crime, as what the government says. It is used to hide secrets of government wrongdoing. And in the matter of the government issuing identity cards to Muslim immigrants so that the non-Muslim voter population can be diluted, this is definitely something that the government would like to hide.
THE CORRIDORS OF POWER, Raja Petra Kamarudin
Many probably did not take too much interest in the story about seven Immigration Department officers being detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA). You can read The Star and Bernama news items below.
Many also probably did not realise that this is the second time that Immigration Department officers, plus National Registration Department officers (the state director included), are being detained under the ISA.
The first round of detentions was some years ago, soon after PBS was ousted from Sabah and Barisan Nasional took over the state. Now we are seeing a second round of detentions.
SAPP, in fact, raised this matter back in 2008 in an article called Sabah population increases by 285%, whilst Malaysia’s population increases by only 113% – something is very wrong…
This was what they said about the matter:
The discrepancies in the population increase between 1970 to 2000 in Sabah, Sarawak and Malaysia: 10,439,430 to 22,202,614 or up by 113 percent in Malaysia; 976,269 to 2,012,616 or up by 106 percent in Sarawak; and 636,431 to 2,449,389 or up by 285 percent in Sabah.
Read more here: http://www.sapp.org.my/misc/news/081006_Mykad.htm
Other articles on the same issue can be read here:
600,000 MyKad di bawah ‘Projek M’ di Sabah
Project IC
Now, why was the first group of Immigration Department and National Registration Department officers detained under ISA some years ago? According to what they personally told me when I met them three or four years ago — after they were released from detention — they were not running a rogue operation. It was a ‘legitimate’ exercise. The only thing is the ‘operations centre’ was not in the National Registration Department office but in an ‘underground’ office in Kampong Pandan in Kuala Lumpur.
If this was not a rogue operation, and if it was legal, why the need to operate outside a government office and instead operate from an underground office in Kampong Pandan? The reason, according to these officers, was so that no one would know about it.
The target was to ‘import’ Filipino Muslims into Sabah and issue them with Malaysian identity cards. Some say as many as 600,000 were brought in. Others say it was one million. And some estimates put it at 1.5 million.
Nevertheless, whether it was 600,000 or 1 million or 1.5 million, the numbers are very large indeed.
Now, what I want to talk about is not the numbers. What I want to talk about is that if these officers from the Immigration Department and National Registration Department were actually running a rogue operation and if they had committed a crime (and since they were detained under the ISA then surely it is because there is evidence they have committed a crime or else how can the government detain them?) why not just charge them in court?
The reason they can’t be charged in court is because the government does not want anything being revealed during a trial. Under ISA detention there is no trial so nothing comes out. In a trial everything will be revealed.
The government needs to avoid a trial because in a trial it would be revealed that these officers were merely doing what they had been ordered to do — that is, issue identity cards to immigrants. So they need to instead be detained under ISA to hide the truth.
A lot has been written and said about this issue, which is now infamously known as ‘PROJEK M’. It was a project to dilute the Christian population of Sabah by flooding Sabah with Muslim immigrants who would be issued with Malaysian identity cards.
And once they are the owners of Malaysian identity cards they can vote in the elections. And once there are more Muslim voters than Christian voters, the PBS ‘Christian’ government can be brought down. And this did happen, as we all now know.
The sad thing is PBS went and joined Barisan Nasional after they were kicked out of the state. These guys must have their brains up their arseholes. Did I not say that all politicians are slime-balls and scumbags?
The ISA is not actually used to prevent crime, as what the government says. It is used to hide secrets of government wrongdoing. And in the matter of the government issuing identity cards to Muslim immigrants so that the non-Muslim voter population can be diluted, this is definitely something that the government would like to hide.
I think I will go join the anti-ISA demonstration in London on Saturday, 30 October 2010. The ISA is not only being abused. It is being used to reduce the non-Muslim population so that Umno can practically rule forever.
And now the influx of immigrants into Sabah has created a huge social problem. The crime rate and drug problem are extremely high in Sabah. So are the homeless and abandoned children on the streets. Sabah, which was once a paradise, has been turned into a living hell.
And all because Umno wants to make sure that there are more Muslim voters than non-Muslim voters.
What the f–k is the ‘Christian’ PBS doing in Barisan Nasional? Their leaders should all be lined up against the wall and shot. And the belacan-brain Malay officers who collaborate with Umno in issuing these identity cards end up under detention without trial instead of getting awards and titles.
Sama-sama bodoh macam orang PBS.
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7 immigration officers detained under ISA
(The Star) – Seven Immigration Department officers and two foreigners have been detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA) for alleged involvement in human trafficking.
Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar said all nine were arrested at different locations between Sunday and Tuesday.
However, Ismail refused to reveal more information on the detention and identity of the suspects.
“The arrests will enable us to investigate the syndicate’s activities,” he told reporters yesterday.
Ismail said if no stern action had been taken, the situation could have posed a threat to national and regional security. “Irresponsible parties might take the opportunity to get involved in criminal activities such as terrorism, firearms and drugs smuggling.”
Ismail said police were also making efforts to ensure Malaysia was not used as a transit point by foreigners for their criminal activities.
On Oct 4, the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) arrested five Immigration Department officers for allegedly allowing foreigners without proper travel documents into the country.
They were arrested at Pulau Ketam Jetty and in various places in Klang.
Two other officers were also arrested in Port Dickson for allegedly receiving bribes and permitting the unlawful entry of foreigners.
The authorities also arrested several runners for syndicates linked to the officers. The MACC also found almost RM100,000 on the officers and the runners.
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Pegawai Imigresen sekongkol sindiket berbahaya
(Bernama) – Tujuh pegawai imigresen termasuk seorang berpangkat Timbalan Penolong Pengarah yang ditahan mengikut Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (ISA) kerana bersekongkol dengan ketua-ketua sindiket yang sangat berbahaya serta boleh memudaratkan keselamatan negara, kata Menteri Keselamatan Dalam Negeri, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein.
Beliau berkata, penglibatan mereka bukan hanya melibakatkan penyeludupan manusia melalui pintu masuk utama tetapi juga terdedah kepada pelbagai jenayah serius lain seperti aktiviti pengganas, penyeludupan senjata api, dadah dan penyuluhan (pengintipan).
“Mereka telah dipantau lama oleh polis, dan penglibatan mereka dengan ketua-ketua sindiket ini sangat berbahaya dan serius.
“Saya memandang berat kes-kes penyeludupan ini kerana melibatkan soal keselamatan di pintu masuk negara sekali gus menjejaskan nama baik negara dan turut menimbulkan ancaman kepada keselamatan di rantau ini,” katanya di sini hari ini.
Beliau berkata demikian ketika diminta mengulas penahanan tujuh pegawai imigresen itu dan dua warga asing mengikut ISA dalam operasi besar-besaran selama tiga hari bermula Ahad lepas.
Comment by Kamus — February 23, 2012 @ 1:24 PM |