BY AFIX REDZUAN
PETALING JAYA, OCT 16: The Election Commission (EC) was urged to provide a complete and accessible database of voters’ details to ensure it can be easily checked.
A Malaysian Electoral Roll Analysis Project (MERAP) analyst, Lee Wei Tak said, it is impossible to check additional voters’ details if there are not information provided, as voters are given only two weeks to object if there is any suspicion of non-existent voters registered with the same address.
He said EC’s action last September has made it difficult for any political party or individual to identify phantom voters.
“EC declined to provide additional voters’ list, from quarter 1 of 2017, in softcopy.
“They have also reduced the information provided on their portal under ‘Check household detail’ at pengundispr.gov.my/isirumah2,” he said in a media conference in the Bersih 2.0 Office today.
He added, those information, if provide in a database would facilitate political parties to analyse and review any voter addition, ommision and transfer in ther respective areas.
Commenting further on the ‘Check household detail’ portal, Lee said based on MERAP’s survey, they found that there are only brief information provided such as voter’s name, IC number and voting area without the voter’s address.
Besides that, MERAP also found it doubtful when an address is linked to many voters with multiple races.
“We believe it is EC’s new ‘initiative’ to take out the address from the portal, besides, the previous judicial request has challenged their integrity,” he said.
