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69,293 struck off electoral roll

Wednesday, 28 September 2011 12:12pm

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by Hemananthani Sivanandam

PETALING JAYA (Sept 27, 2011): The Election Commission (EC) has struck off 69,293 voters from the electoral roll of 12.3 million.

Its secretary Datuk Kamaruddin Mohamed Baria said in a statement today that this was done between July and Sept 15 after the EC confirmed with the National Registration Department (NRD) that the voters had died.

Kamaruddin said another 1,068 voters had also been removed from the electoral roll during the same period as the NRD had revoked their citizenships.

“As a continuous process of cleaning the electoral roll, the EC decided to review the 12.3 million voters’ record with the collaboration of the NRD, the Department of Records and Pensions, the Malaysian Armed Forces and the Royal Malaysia Police.

“There were voters who had to be removed as some had died, had their citizenship revoked, or retired from the police or military services.

“Some of the spouses of those in the police or military services have also changed their voting status from public to absentee voters,” said Kamaruddin.

He said there were also some who had changed their status from public voters to absentee voters, as they had joined the military and police.

“There are also some who have returned from abroad and changed their status from postal voters to public voters or the other way around,” he said.

Kamaruddin said the EC was also carefully scrutinising 50,000 voters’ record to avoid mistakes.

“We are investigating these by getting confirmation from a few agencies such as the NRD, Department of Records, armed forces and police on the status of their citizenship, identity card numbers and the service status in the military and police,” he said.

Kamaruddin clarified that downloading a voter registration form (form A) from the EC website was not tantamount to becoming a registered voter.

“The EC would like to stress that the facility to download form A through the website does not mean the voters registration can be done online as reported in the media.

“Malaysians, who are above 21 and are qualified to vote can download the form but must send in their forms to the EC’s registration counters to ensure the applicants are genuine.

“Form A which is filled cannot be sent via post, fax or email,” he said.

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