Cheating in Postal Votes
Cheating in Postal Votes
Today, at the Resident’s Office, the Election Commission (EC) officers in Sibu issued postal votes to the police and army personnel, and in the course of supervising the issuance, we caught 13 postal voters who were entitled to vote twice, for their names were registered twice on the electoral roll. They were to be given 2 ballot papers each. But the story did not end here.
We asked the EC officers to verify the duplicated voters by a computer. It had none.
All the ballot papers for more than 2600 postal voters in the police and army were contained in the envelopes and placed on the table. My election agent and workers had to use naked eyes to pick up the duplicity!
Credit to the EC workers in Sibu, they were very patient watching us do the checking, but is that the way to run an election?
From the morning till about 4p.m., my workers forgot their lunches and ploughed through the piles and piles of envelopes, looking for duplicated voters.
My workers were not provided with lunch by the EC.
The work to check for duplicity was supposed to be done by the EC as we were not supposed to even touch those envelopes. But we were told to do it. The EC officers just watched.
In the course of doing so, Robert Lau’s son and his agent also came to the Resident’s Office. The agent checked and handled the envelopes also. After about 30 minutes they left. The PKR candidate Lim Chin Chuang also came. He took a look, and left.
They all knew that with DAP going through the chores, things must be in good hands.
We found 13 duplicate voters. But we thought that a computer check would have been faster and better.
Just when we had done all that we could with our eyes, the EC HQ in Kuching faxed a list to the Returning Officer showing that in Sibu Parliamentary constituency, there were 10 duplicate voters.
Why could not the EC expugn these duplicate voters? Why had the EC to wait until they were caught with their pants down? Why could our naked eyes pick 13 yet the EC’s computer could only 10?
The EC had to bluff even in the last minute, despite having been caught red handed.
All the 13 envelopes containing duplicate voters were rejected. Of course, they could still vote with the remaining ballot.
Such is the type of democracy in our country. Some are entitled to vote twice. The EC is caught sleeping, and even at the point where they were caught red handed, they were cheating us to say that the list was only 10.
During the ceramah in the evening, I checked the list of postal voters generated by our own computer. There were more duplicate voters than 13.
As my workers worked through the piles and piles of envelopes, the police officer in charge of the postal voting became very agitated. He accused me of delaying the process. He told me that his boss had already instructed the police to vote at 1:00 p.m. till 5 p.m. I asked him whether they must vote during those hours despite the fact that we had caught irregularity in the electoral roll. He said “yes”, without blinking an eye.
I would never bulge to this sort of cheating in the electoral roll. The police should not endorse, knowing fully well that we had caught the duplicate voters both in the police force and the army.
Instead of helping to ensure a cleaner voting system, the police inspector was visibly upset. He accused me that it was because of what we were doing that the police could not vote today.
So what? Just because you are the police? Why the rush? You guys can vote until 5p.m. on 8th March, 2008. Why do you have to rush?
The Major from the army camp also insisted to bring home the postal votes to his camps today. But after my explanation, he agreed that it could be postponed. He was clearly a nicer man than the police officer in charge.
To set the record straight, the police would vote on 4th March and the arm forces personnel would vote on 6th March, said the EC. So, why the rush?
Beware! There are cheats in the electoral rolls for postal voting. Some voters registered twice under slightly different names. Registering their names using “Ak” and also “Anak”, or “B” and “Bin” makes them him entitled to 2 votes. Using the police number or Tenetra number to register, then also using their IC to register will also entitle them to 2 votes.
Who has allowed this? The EC.
1/3/2008
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:10 am
Who asked them to cheat? and why did they want to cheat?
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:54 am
Maybe they are paid?
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:01 am
Dear YB Wong,
Should think of boycotting the entire election process in the country, this is the worst crime committed, violating the Democracy of the country. Should bring this criminal act to the international level of justice to stop this menace in this country.
The reasons to boycott:
1)Relocation of voters unknowingly
2)BN postal vote
3)8000 over 100 years old voter, Sarawak about 1500.
4)Bribery vote
5)offer million of dollar for retreiving as a candidate
This is not a fair election.
What happen to Malaysia??
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Just for the record, the SPR workers from our own Sibu District Office were very cooperative. They seemed just as anxious that all duplicates should be caught out - in fact, 2 were caught out by their own people. But I can’t say that much for the SPR head from Kuching. On hindsight, he must have known of the duplicities as everytime after one name had been caught out, he would disappear to check with Kuching as to whether the names refered to the same person. In other words, he must have known of the existence of the list of duplicate voters and yet, he had just let us painstackingly checked through the electoral rolls (for your info, in small print) and the envelopes ourselves.
Today again, we attended the 2nd issuance of postal votes ballot papers to the SPR workers, in other words, the list was prepared by our own SPR staff here. Everything was done properly and we could finished much earlier than yesterday. When I asked where was the SPR head who was here yesterday, I was told that he flew home last night with a big headache and after taking a few panadols.
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:29 pm
expect this shit from ra-shit.else, you think BN gonna spent so much resources to change the constitution to accommodate him.
by the way, ra-shit you will be entitled to a plum job after this retirement. like sitting as chairman or director of GLCs and he will be rewarded handsomely.
ra-shit, take your money with you whereever you go. but, you can never stand tall and say..”i have fight a good fight..and I can stand tall with integrity..”
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Have posted this article in Malaysia-Today.net. Check this link… http://www.malaysia-today.net/2008/content/view/3668/1/
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:36 pm
From the legal pointS of view,
1. Can an injunction be casted because EC been BIAS and not proving a Fair Election?
2. Can EC Chief be disqualified by court for his being BIAS and not Independent and had not done his duty in reporting and investigate the lost of 124 ballet Boxes in last GE and the recent disclose of close of half a million of deceased “registered” voters and his lack of effort to registered more than 4 millions of eligible voters, etc..
3. For this cheating of Postal Vote, how can they be taken as evidence to apply for an Injunction to STOP the GE?
Or, just a checking that are NOT ACTIONABLE?
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Is there a punishment for this kind of voters who intended to cheat? some kind of rules should be available to punish them.
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:18 pm
The key question should be if EC to be punished if EC had allowed it to happen and repeated:
http://maverickysm.blogspot.com/2008/02/phantom-voters-plentiful.html
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:52 pm
its really clear that ec hasnt done their done 100%.
March 2nd, 2008 at 5:40 pm
The one who voted more than once should be jailed. The rule should be as simple as such
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Is there any provision to charge the election comminsion for the offenc of cheating? If there is, he must be cahrged in court. If not then the law must be amended to include such provision. Otherwise the law is discriminatory while the it can indict others for offences while the EC is not. EC is not above the law. Unless there is penalty for cheating by the EC then there is no fear in them to cheat.
March 2nd, 2008 at 11:27 pm
bravo! bravo!
Keep up the good work!
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:08 am
Dear YB Wong,
I see DAP ceramah schedule (venue & date) for Kuching & Stampin being posted in DAP Sarawak site.
Thanks for responding to my request on the above. Hope the remaining candidates can do the same.
Dear Sarawakian,
Go to DAP Ceramahs, and don’t forget to vote for your future.
March 3rd, 2008 at 1:05 am
I don’t mind attending the ceramah if English or BM is spoken. If mandarin, susah lah..
May the force be with us
March 3rd, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Good job but, wait a minute, what makes us think that the matter has been taken care of? It could just be the tip of the iceberg where the EC (Ever Cheat) officers could still be in cahoots with others to swap postal votes with phantom voters after it has been handed over to the police and armer???
March 6th, 2008 at 7:43 am
EC’s computer system needs to be improved to be more intelligent. Instead of just comparing Ak = Ak, probably need to study varieties of occurrences and consider Ak = Anak/Ak/Ak./etc.
July 24th, 2009 at 3:49 am
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