The issue of phamtom voters is not something new in our electoral system. But their existence is nothing mystery in a small country like ours. Comparing to US, we are much more smaller in terms of population and yet we have so many problems with phantom voters.
PBRS offers to help EC weed out phantom voters. Kurup cited the example of identity card of a dead person ending up in the possession of someone else, usually an illegal immigrant. But logically speaking, even if the “outlaw” citizens do possess the identity card illegally, most of them will not dare to vote. Why, because they know they are illegal immigrants, who better not expose themselves to authority if possible. Unless there are some morons (especially BN) who summon them to be voters for certain candidates with assurance that they will not be caught and in return rewarded for their role as voters, only then they will show up, after the mutual deal between candidates and involved agencies.
The issue of phantom voters in Sabah is mainly BN’s dirty trick. Remember, this issue escalated fast during PBS golden era as the strongest opposition party in Sabah. Remember how Dr. M, brought in kris party to strengthen BN. Giving instance citizenship to illegal immigrants by giving condition that they vote for BN was nothing new. So this time around, the sincerity of BN in talking about their efforts to clear off phantoms is questionable and could be another political gimmicks.
PBRS offers to help EC weed out phantom voters. Kurup cited the example of identity card of a dead person ending up in the possession of someone else, usually an illegal immigrant. But logically speaking, even if the “outlaw” citizens do possess the identity card illegally, most of them will not dare to vote. Why, because they know they are illegal immigrants, who better not expose themselves to authority if possible. Unless there are some morons (especially BN) who summon them to be voters for certain candidates with assurance that they will not be caught and in return rewarded for their role as voters, only then they will show up, after the mutual deal between candidates and involved agencies.
The issue of phantom voters in Sabah is mainly BN’s dirty trick. Remember, this issue escalated fast during PBS golden era as the strongest opposition party in Sabah. Remember how Dr. M, brought in kris party to strengthen BN. Giving instance citizenship to illegal immigrants by giving condition that they vote for BN was nothing new. So this time around, the sincerity of BN in talking about their efforts to clear off phantoms is questionable and could be another political gimmicks.
The current SPR on the other hand, should be revamped and T. Sri Rashid should be sacked for his role in indelible ink saga. SPR should have a new fresh committee to uphold the integrity of electoral system. The issue of the phantom voters should be solved without involvement of the current SPR committee who has proven biased towards BN.
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drama queen yg buruk...no 1 believe in his act
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