Noh Omar: Snub S'gor's voter verification exercise
Published: Jun 4, 2012 12:43 PM | Updated: Jun 4, 2012 1:40 PM
Selangor Umno deputy chief Noh Omar urged the public to snub the Selangor state government's campaign dubbed 'Selangorku Bersih' to verify the identities of voters in the state as it is an abuse of power.
Selangor Umno deputy chief Noh Omar urged the public to snub the Selangor state government's campaign dubbed 'Selangorku Bersih' to verify the identities of voters in the state as it is an abuse of power.
The campaign was launched by Selangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim recently, mobilising state civil servants and village heads to clean the electoral roll.
They will conduct house-to-house visits to verify the identities of voters registered in those addresses and raise objections should they fail to locate the voters.
It was a response to the spike of the number of voters in the state which Pakatan Rakyat said may involve irregularities and fraud including the registration of foreigners as voters, and the transfer of outside voters into the state.
According to a report in today's Utusan Malaysia Noh argued the power to verify voters' identities is under the purview of the Election Commission (EC), and the increase of voters in Selangor is due to an awareness campaign conducted by the EC previously.
"I was informed that the state government is eager to check voters from house to house. But it is not in their powers to conduct the task.
"If this matter is true, don't they have anything else to do? I call on the people of Selangor not to entertain the representatives from the state government or Village Development and Security Committees (JKKK) if they come to their houses to check on voters," he was quoted as saying by the Umno-owned Malay daily.
The agriculture and agro-based industry minister said the campaign may have hidden political motives such as to put the blame on the EC and government if the opposition loses the state in the next general election.
"If they lose in the next general election, they would use what they are doing today, which is checking voters from house-to-house, as their weapon to charge that there are phantom voters, fraud committed by the EC and so on, even though the new electoral roll is valid," he added.
The campaign was launched by Selangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim recently, mobilising state civil servants and village heads to clean the electoral roll.
They will conduct house-to-house visits to verify the identities of voters registered in those addresses and raise objections should they fail to locate the voters.It was a response to the spike of the number of voters in the state which Pakatan Rakyat said may involve irregularities and fraud including the registration of foreigners as voters, and the transfer of outside voters into the state.
According to a report in today's Utusan Malaysia Noh argued the power to verify voters' identities is under the purview of the Election Commission (EC), and the increase of voters in Selangor is due to an awareness campaign conducted by the EC previously.
"I was informed that the state government is eager to check voters from house to house. But it is not in their powers to conduct the task.
"If this matter is true, don't they have anything else to do? I call on the people of Selangor not to entertain the representatives from the state government or Village Development and Security Committees (JKKK) if they come to their houses to check on voters," he was quoted as saying by the Umno-owned Malay daily.The agriculture and agro-based industry minister said the campaign may have hidden political motives such as to put the blame on the EC and government if the opposition loses the state in the next general election.
"If they lose in the next general election, they would use what they are doing today, which is checking voters from house-to-house, as their weapon to charge that there are phantom voters, fraud committed by the EC and so on, even though the new electoral roll is valid," he added.
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