IMPLEMENT ‘FAIR AND CLEAN’ ELECTION

By : DAP MEDIA

PAKATAN Rakyat Sabah Secretariat (PRSS) in a statement released today after the yesterday monthly meeting, said that the people of Malaysia especially those in Sabah are strongly demanding for immediate actions from the government and the Election Commission (EC) to enforce and to realize the implementation on the true principle of a ‘fair and clean’ election by all in the coming general election.

This is in response to the announcement made by the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak on the formation of a Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) comprising of selected Members of Parliament irrespective from the ruling BN or the opposition parties on the electoral reform.

His move has strongly implied that there are definitely ‘defaults’ and ‘installed errors’ along with many other associated problems in our faulty electoral rolls in the country. The Malaysian would not go to the streets and spending efforts, time and money to dig into the electoral rolls to seek out the many faults and mistakes in the rolls.

There are cases like illegal immigrants holding voting rights and can vote in many polling centre with different identities, MyPR card holders became registered voters, voters being moved from original place of voting to another towns, name of registered voters cannot be found anyway, postal voters can also vote as ordinary voters, uniform groups can vote doubly, oversea Malaysian not allow to vote, dead people still listed, age over 100 years old still listed, and why no setting up of oversea polling centre.

The other serious issue is on the sudden increase of voters on the electoral roll which has raised concern among the people in Sabah. The huge number of voter increment is surely reflected by the huge increase in the Sabah population in the recent years.

In the case of Sabah, it is an open secret and our main concern that the Sabah Electoral rolls and the election practices during the past general elections had been everything but clean and fair.

Cleaning the Sabah electoral rolls which were tainted or still being tainted with fraud by the inclusion of phantom and dubious voters will be a good starting point.

Pakatan Rakyat is willing to back up our claims for phantom and dubious voters who are included in the Sabah electoral rolls if the BN administration and the Election Commission allow our participation in implementing a clean and fair election.

However, mere pledge in announcing the formation of PSC for election reform is far from the democratic system of clean and fair election unless the demands from all quarters for such reform are met and implemented in the coming general election. Show us some sincerity!