The Election Commission reiterates its claim that it is not a dirty organisation.
KUALA LUMPUR: The Election Commission has repeated its claim that it is not a dirty organisation.
EC chairman Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof said this after having a closed-door meeting with several MPs in Parliament.
“I told these MPs: Where in the world is there an electoral roll that is 100% correct?” he told reporters in the briefing room.
He added that it was unfair for certain parties to slam the EC of being dirty, especially with the 42,000 “doubtful voters”.
“In Malaysia, we have 12.6 million voters to check. For doubtful voters, it is only 42,000…that is 0.3%…is that dirty? You have to be fair to the EC,” he said.
Abdul Aziz said that there were 42,051 “doubtful voters” who could not be verified by the National Registration Department (NRD).
He said that the NRD had tried to contact these people, and was unable to get a response from them.
“We are afraid that if we were to remove some of these names, these people might still be alive!” Abdul Aziz
said.
He later added that this number had been reduced to 41,750.
The EC chairman also cleared the air over 19,342 people affected by “boundary change”.
He said that there was no boundary change for these people, and that they were really affected by “locality correction”.
Using Bandar Tun Razak MP Khalid Ibrahim as an example, he said that the MP’s address used to be in Selangor.
After checking with their Electoral Geographical Information System, the EC found that Khalid was really in Kuala Lumpur, and corrected it accordingly.
KUALA LUMPUR: The Election Commission has repeated its claim that it is not a dirty organisation.EC chairman Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof said this after having a closed-door meeting with several MPs in Parliament.
“I told these MPs: Where in the world is there an electoral roll that is 100% correct?” he told reporters in the briefing room.
He added that it was unfair for certain parties to slam the EC of being dirty, especially with the 42,000 “doubtful voters”.
“In Malaysia, we have 12.6 million voters to check. For doubtful voters, it is only 42,000…that is 0.3%…is that dirty? You have to be fair to the EC,” he said.
Abdul Aziz said that there were 42,051 “doubtful voters” who could not be verified by the National Registration Department (NRD).
He said that the NRD had tried to contact these people, and was unable to get a response from them.
“We are afraid that if we were to remove some of these names, these people might still be alive!” Abdul Aziz
said.He later added that this number had been reduced to 41,750.
The EC chairman also cleared the air over 19,342 people affected by “boundary change”.
He said that there was no boundary change for these people, and that they were really affected by “locality correction”.
Using Bandar Tun Razak MP Khalid Ibrahim as an example, he said that the MP’s address used to be in Selangor.
After checking with their Electoral Geographical Information System, the EC found that Khalid was really in Kuala Lumpur, and corrected it accordingly.
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