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Found: Dead voter in Bkt Gantang’s voters roll!

Kubur Kassim bin Mamat Amin yang meninggal pada 1973.

30 TAHUN MENINGGAL DUNIA TAPI MASIH DALAM DAFTAR PEMILIH

(1) Malaysians for Free and Fair Elections (MAFREL) ingin mengumumkan perkembangan terkini tentang gerakerja pemerhatian pilihanraya dalam Pilihanraya Kecil di P.059 Bukit Gantang, Perak; N.25 Bukit Selambau, Kedah dan N.29 Batang Ai, Sarawak yang diadakan serentak pada 29 March 2009 bagi penamaan calon, hari ini dan 7 April 2009 bagi hari mengundi. . . . .

Candidates confirmed:13`indies’ for Bkt Selambau nominated top records

The scene at Bkt Selambau after announcement of candidates on BN side.

Confirmed candidates:

Bkt Gantang: 3 candidates-Pas’ Nizar vs BN’s Ismail vs 1 indie(?) PAS crowds overwhelmed BN’s.

Batang Ai: 2 candidates: PK?R’s Jawah Gerang vs BN’s Muhsin

Bkt Selambau: BN/MIC’s Ganesan vs PKR’s Manikumar vs 13 candidates

Ong BK

Batang Ai: 56% eligible voters not registered!

Publish Post

4-wheel drives, along with accommodation services, are in big demands in Batang Ai.

This is part of a Bernama report today which expose the extremely low rate of voters registration in Batang Ai! Something must be done to facilitate the registration of these voters or else it amount to disenfranchising them as citizens! For 22 000 people if we take away the 20% as those who are too young there are still some 18 000 eligible voters. With only 8000 registered this amount to about 44% registration-which is much lower than the national average at about 67%! With such a low registration rate it is possible that the choice as Assemblyperson by these registered voters may not reflect the overall people’s sentiments! Whatever happen to the regard for `the will of the people’?