The tug-of-war between PAS Youth and the Election Commission (EC) continued today, with the commission claiming that three out of five alleged 'cloned voters' are genuine voters.

According to an EC officer who did not want to be named, each of the three names raised by the PAS Youth wing - Jumaayah binti Alus, Sainam binti Tukisan and Katimah binti Kadni, are shared by two different individuals.

"Their names are in the Agency Link-up System (Alis) at the National Registration Department (NRD) and the EC," he told Malaysiakini today.

NONEHowever, the EC is still checking with the Defence Ministry and police force on another two names raised by the Youth wing - Nesam Banu bt Mohammad Fahmi and Lanuddin bin Ngah Mat Nasir - who are military personnel.

Last week, Johor PAS Youth chief Suhaizan Kaiat (left) claimed that the five names have two entries in the electoral roll with slightly different MyKad numbers, raising doubts that a single individual is allowed to vote twice.

Today he called another press conference at PAS headquarters in Kuala Lumpur to reiterate his doubts over the five names.

'Names are quite unique'

He claimed that the chances for each of these names to be shared by two individuals are slim because those names are quite unique and two of them have the same date of birth.

It is more so for the two Katimahs who Suhaizan claimed are Umno members of the same branch - Parit Basri Darat under Parit Sulong parliamentary seat in Johor.

Although Suhaizan was proven wrong over the three names, several ‘clone voters’ exposed by him earlier had been removed by the EC from the electoral roll.

“I vehemently deny the allegation that I lied over the matter... If I had lied, the EC would not have taken action (to remove those names) upon my expose,” he stressed.

According to the National Registration Department (NRD), these ‘clones’ are non-active MyKad numbers which should have been removed from its database.

Suhaizan also demanded the EC and NRD to answer three questions:

1. How many voters in total have been and will be removed by the EC?

2. Which provision under the Elections (Conduct of Elections) Regulations 1981 allows the EC to remove the relevant voters?

3. How the NRD identifies invalid individuals to be removed for the cases of those having same old identity card numbers but slightly different MyKad numbers? Does the NRD already have a list of ‘clone citizens’ before PAS Youth made the objection?

Last Friday the EC chairperson, Abdul Aziz Yusof, had explained that the commission is entitled by the election laws to remove names from the electoral roll under the circumstances listed below:

  • After confirmation from the National Registration Department (NRD) that a voter has died;
  • When a voter renounces his or her Malaysian citizenship;
  • When a voter has a double registration in the electoral roll due to various reasons. The non-active identity will be removed once verified by the NRD;
  • Voters who are unusually old such as 100 years will be removed after consultation with the NRD; and,
  • Voters with criminal convictions.


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