'Clone' voters are Umno members, discovers PAS

Following the expose of 'clone voters', PAS claims it has discovered that some of those with double identity in the electoral roll are Umno members, raising the question of whether the ruling party is behind the fraud.

Johor PAS youth chief Suhaizan Kaiat, (left) today exposed another three 'clone voters' whose double identity is still available on the Election Commission (EC) online verification website.

Malaysiakini has verified that the trio have double identity with same name, address and registered constituency but slightly different MyKad numbers.

A check with National Registration Department (NRD) website which allows people to check the status of identification documents, found that one of their two MyKads is not valid.

The three new cases are different to the previous cases reported by Malaysiakini, which had been removed by the EC.

Clones voted twice suspicion

They do not have old identity card numbers, and their double identities share the same address but written in different format.

However, Malaysiakini could not verify the alleged Umno membership of the trio.

Disclosing the details of their alleged Umno membership, Suhaizan claimed the trio belong to the Umno Puteri and Umno youth wings.

He suspected that those 'clone voters' had been allowed to vote twice by convincing the EC presiding officers during the polls using:

• Fake MyKad;
• Fake driving licence;
• Genuine MyKad but allowed to vote because of minor error in MyKad number;
• Form 11 to declare that the voter is person whose name appears in the electoral roll; and,
• Other suitable means.

"The evidence seems to prove that Umno is involved in electoral manipulation. PAS youth urges prime minister as Umno president to explain this discovery by PAS youth," said Suhaizan.

He stressed that the existence of 'clone voters' is not mere coincidence because the three voters disclosed today are just examples of the many cases that the Islamic party has detected.

"If Umno youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin accused that the Mismah issue has being created by the opposition, I would like to ask who created this electoral fraud?"

Details of the three voters unearthed by PAS are as below:

1. Mohd Bahar bin Omar

First MyKad: 800105025489 (valid)

Second MyKad: 800105025459 (invalid)
Umno Membership no: 02914008
State: Kedah
Division: Kulim Bandar Baharu
State seat: Kulim
Branch: Jalan Junjung

2. Faten Diana binti Hassan

First MyKad: 810822035400 (valid)

Second MyKad: 810522035400 (invalid)
Umno Membership no: 03252506
State: Kelantan
Division: Tumpat
State seat: Kelaboran
Branch: Dalam Rhu Pantai

3. Sharina binti Mat Ariff

First MyKad: 800727095094 (valid)

Second MyKad: 800729095094 (invalid)
Umno Membership no: 02999301
State: Perlis
Division: Padang Besar
State seat: Santan
Branch: Kampong Petal

EC chief: It's a result of human error

In another related development, EC chairperson Abdul Aziz Yusof told Sin Chew Daily that the issue of double identity is a result of human error when the MyKad number was keyed into the system.

He explained that some voters may have registered twice because their MyKad numbers were not correctly keyed in during their first registration. So they registered again when they found out their name did not appear in the electoral roll, resulting in the double identity.

These errors also occurred, said Abdul Aziz (left), when voters registered again after losing their MyKad, and during the process of changing the status of postal voters to ordinary voters.

He pointed out that many voters are not aware of their double identity because the EC only allows voters to check their status according to MyKad number and not name.

Abdul Aziz also said that those errors mostly happen to registrations done before 2002. After that, the authority made it compulsory for voters to register their constituency according to the address stated in their MyKad.

The EC will discuss with NRD on how to effectively address the errors in the electoral roll, he added.