Sibu: Details of postal voting irregularities revealed

The blogosphere is much more abuzz after Sibu then it was before :P :)
I wanted to backtrack again to re-highlight the many postal voting irregularities that might have been missed in all the excitement.
ps- always been a fan of YB Anthony Loke: great job!

Loke said the most serious discrepancy was that several codes (police or army personnel voter-groupings) saw returned ballots in excess of the number that were issued on May 12.
He identified Code 708 (police) where six ballots were distributed, and 24 returned. Code 429 (army) saw 160 ballots issued and 161 returned. For Code 43 (army), 47 were issued and 67 returned.

:| I think that’s pretty self explanatory. 213 ballots given out, 252 ballots returned. O.O

The second discrepancy, noted Loke, involved the 290 ballots that were issued to EC workers who applied to be postal voters because they were working on polling day.
Loke said that about 200 of such voters did not vote on the same day (May 12) and went home with their ballots, which he argued could then be “sold”.
“If taken out of the polling centres, ballots becomes a commodity to be sold. Now, no one will know who actually marked those ballots that were issued,” he said.

So, the EC apparently didn’t see a problem with issuing out ballots, LETTING PEOPLE TAKE THEM HOME, and then bring them back another day?!
The only question that remains is: how much did they sell for? :P

Loke added that there were also dubious individuals among the 200-odd voters who returned their ballots yesterday, some of whom refused to be identified by party scrutineers.
“One person looked more like a VCD seller than an EC worker (left). He had some young people with him. Our people tried to check their ICs but they all claim that they forgot to carry it with them,” he said.
The third discrepancy detected by DAP was that out of the 290 postal voters who were EC workers, two were not even in the electoral roll.
“When we demanded for their IC, they promptly left,” he said.

Hantu much? :P
All these incidents demonstrate only one thing: brazen shamelessness.
Will we allow the dirtiest EC in the world to run roughshod over our democratic rights? Or will we stand up and continue the fight that Bersih started? - Nathaniel Tan