PKR Youth will be writing to Election Commission offices in every state in protest against the decision to stop providing copies of the draft voters registry during the display period.

Dubbed the #SPRPenipu campaign, PKR Youth vice-chief Tan Kar Hing said the campaign would highlight how EC was not acting in a neutral manner.

"We will mobilise PKR Youth members to send memoranda to the respective state EC directors to voice out their disagreement.

"The EC must not act as an agent of Umno and BN," Tan said at a press conference at the PKR headquarters in Petaling Jaya today.

PKR vice-president Nurul Izzah Anwar, who was also present, said the latest move by the EC would only give way to instances of fraud.

The draft electoral rolls, said the Lembah Pantai MP, had made it easier for political parties to make checks on the voter registry.

"The checking process is important to ensure that the EC's registry is free from fraud.

"It has been one of the ways for us to identify if there are phantom voters in a particular area."

With this move, the EC had not only limited but made the checking process harder, Nurul Izzah added.

The EC had confirmed that it was no longer providing copies of draft electoral rolls during the display period as it feels that the public display is sufficient to inform voters of their status.

Citing Regulation 13 of the Election Regulations 2002, EC secretary Abdul Ghani Salleh said the draft electoral roll has to be displayed at a gazetted public area for 14 days, to show the lists of voters who are seeking to be included into the roll and those seeking to change their voting areas.

As interested parties can still view the roll, the new directive does not restrict access, Abdul Ghani said.