Sibu: Is EC really neutral?

The SIBU by election and any other by election that will take place between now and the next General Election will show the same pattern of financial abuse by the ruling government. They will divert funds from other places to a particular parliamentary or state constituency to ensure that they can buy the people’s heart.

Unfortunately, many of us are easily bought. Many see what the government does in two weeks prior to a by- election and not in the last 5 years or what they have planned for the people in the next 5 years. I would prefer the people to look at track records in the last few years before making a decision.

As always the postal votes became an issue. I was following the minute by minute development on Malaysiakini and Anilnetto.com. From what transpired last night, PR could have lost the election due to postal votes and what I suspect is a massive vote tampering. This could be appreciated from the inconsistent announcement by EC at the end of voting time and his subsequent announcements. It gave rise to unnecessary suspicion among the people on the fairness of the EC.

At the peak, DAP was leading by approximately 4000 votes and by the time the result was announced, they were lucky to have won by 398 votes.

I don’t understand on why EC need to do such a thing.

My research on the internet, shows the following;