The Elections Commission (EC) must take responsibility and act to correct the erroneous election roll instead of trying to blame other government agencies for the problem. While it may be true that other agencies are also partly responsible for the problem, it is the EC that is ultimately responsible for a clean election roll.

Even though the EC chairman Datuk Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman may also be right about the tediousness of obtaining and determining the names of those who are dead or had moved, a key problem seems to be related to the unwillingness of the EC to ferret out the illegal voters once these people were pointed out to the Commission.

As explained by Judge Datuk Muhammad Kamil Awang," It appears that the SPR (Elections Commission ) had deliberately or knowingly sent those letters (Exhibit P21 and P22) that prohibit the holding of a public inquiry (except in cases of death or loss of eligibility).

"The Elections (Registration of Electors) Regulations (Sabah) 1971 requires that if any voter files an official objection against the inclusion of a particular person, the SPR has to hold a public inquiry in which the objector as well as the person being objected to are invited. The objector will make out a prima facie case for his objection, then the SPR will require the person being objected to give proof of his residential status."

Therefore the EC should first explain the rationale behind those directives, and how far up did the directive come from. Second, the EC should immediately retract those prohibitive directives, and expedite holding public enquiries as required by law.