Act on electoral list discrepancies, Guan Eng tells Election Commission
Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng has expressed concern over inconsistencies between the number of voters registered by the Election Commission (EC) and the number of residents recorded iin certain areas. The DAP secretary-general said his office has detected that there are, in two instances, more voters than the total residents recorded by the National Registration Department (NRD). “You cannot have more voters than residents,” Lim told reporters yesterday, urging the EC to clarify and act on the “phantom voters” it had recorded. He cited EC figures of 1,600 Indian voters in Terengganu, even though the NRD has recorded only 1,441 Indian residents there. In another instance, the EC stipulated there are 116,907 Malay voters in Sabah when only 115,349 Malays were recorded by the NRD as residents in the state. He said the anomaly was spotted after the DAP checked on electoral data released by the EC, which was published in The Edge recently. “Why is the EC not hiring a ‘ghost-buster’ to ...