PKR wants EC board to resign over voter shift
By Asrul Hadi Abdullah Sani, The Malaysian Insider
KUALA LUMPUR, April 20 — PKR election director Fuziah Salleh today demanded the Election Commission (EC) board resign for illegally relocating 13,000 voters in Hulu Selangor.
PKR had claimed the EC allegedly relocated voting stations that will affect 13,488 voters in the Hulu Selangor federal seat which it narrowly won by 198 votes in Election 2008.
The party believes that the shift is aimed to cause chaos on the April 25 polling day when voters discover that their stations have been relocated.
The Kuantan MP said the EC’s action was “stupid, irresponsible and incompetent.”
“So far SPR has been giving conflicting statement. The Chairman said that we need to change for the comfort of the voters, while his deputy said that my allegations did not make sense,” she said, referring to the EC by its Malay acronym.
“These are conflicting statements coming from SPR. The chairman said it is for the comfort of the voters and the deputy said it does not make sense to move 14,000 voters.
“SPR needs to be responsible. How is SPR informing the voters? Until now, they are only publishing on the website. Or would they send letters to voter’s because SPR has not done anything. They even denied that this ever happened,” she told reporters in parliament here.
The EC has denied relocating the voting stations of some 13,000 voters, and characterised PKR’s claims are being baseless.
EC deputy chairman Datuk Wira Wan Ahmad Wan Omar told The Malaysian Insider that changes can only happen if the affected voters applied to move voting stations.
Wan Ahmad demanded PKR to prove allegations that the voting stations were relocated since two years ago.
Today Fuziah brought a copy of the electoral roll from 2010 and 2008 and showed that voting stations were relocated for more than 13,000 voters.
PKR alleged that the relocation involved all three state constituencies in the parliamentary constituency of Hulu Selangor.
