State PAS Youth secretary Afnan Hamimi Taib Azamudden (right) said the alleged irregularities were detected by the party's election committee over the week.
PAS party has its own computer system, Hamimi said, which has been able to detect the number of foreigners or permanent residents with the middle number '71' in their identity cards.
"The number of this kind of voters in the electoral roll is very high and appeared suddenly. Also, the controversy over Mismah has made us very suspicious," he told Malaysiakini today.
Recently, Malaysiakini exposed a case where an individual named Mismah was listed as a PR holder but was included in the latest update to the country's electoral roll.
However, her status was changed to full citizenship just hours after the issue made the headlines.
The Election Commission clarified the Mismah incident as a mere "technical glitch" as the National Registration Department had failed to update its data despite Mismah having received full citizenship since January this year.
Mismah has denied any irregularity in the granting of her Malaysian citizenship.
Penang voters surge by 26,000 in three months
PAS had earlier pointed out that checks conducted in Selangor, Perak, Penang, Johor, Kelantan and Terengganu yielded similar cases where PR holders were registered as voters, with at least 1,100identified in Selangor alone.
On Aug 5, Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng claimed that the state saw a sudden surge of 26,000 voters in just three months.
Lim said among others, the Batu Maung state constituency, currently held by state exco member Abdul Malik Kassim from PKR, saw a shocking increase of 1,400 postal votes.
On Aug 9, the PAS Penang election unit revealed that it had found 237 "suspicious" names in the electoral roll.
The findings showed several inconsistencies, including voters with two identity card numbers with different names, different people with similar names and similar ID numbers, as well as those with similar names but with different birth dates registered as voters in two different areas.
Meanwhile, Hamimi said the controversy over the ban on use of loudspeakers for the recital of verses from the Quran by the Penang Fatwa Council before dawn prayers was planned to divert attention from irregularities revealed in the electoral rolls.
He urged that the debate be stopped and focus be put on the "issue of betrayal" by certain quarters who had compromised the future of the country into the hands of foreigners through dubious practices involving the MyKad and the electoral roll.
The Penang Fatwa Council had been criticised for allowing the state government under Lim (left) to 'interfere' in the matter.
However, Lim has denied any involvement and this was duly confirmed by state mufti Hassan Ahmad in a recent press conference.
Afnan Hamimi noted that the Election Commission had admitted it was unable to prepare a completely clean electoral roll as demanded by Bersih 2.0. - Malaysiakini
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