Harping on the various errors detected among postal voters in the electoral rolls, DAP called on the Election Commission (EC) to get rid of the postal votes of the spouses of military personnel.
In a statement issued today, DAP assistant organising secretary Vincent Wu (left) argued that it is not necessary for military personnel spouses to register as postal voters as they are not on duty on polling day.
He still fails to comprehend why after the 2008 general election, the EC wants them to cast their ballots through the post.
Under current election laws, spouses of military and police personnel are given a choice to register as ordinary or postal voters.
The opposition has been disputing the practice of postal voting, claiming that it is not transparent and open to manipulation as well as tampering.
On Tuesday, DAP youth chief Anthony Loke claimed that about two dozen voters had been found to have registered under the civilian MyKads of their army spouses.
"They use the ordinary ICs of their husbands to register but under the wives' names - a wife could still have the ordinary voter's right so she might be able to vote twice," said the MP for Rasah.
In the statement, Wu also wanted the EC to overhaul the postal voting system.
Currently the EC is mulling replacing the current system with advance voting, an early voting exercise that can be monitored by the agents of political parties.
One week provision criticised
The currect exercise of providing the public only one week to scrutinise and raise objections to the quarterly supplementary electoral roll draft is also disputed by Wu.
"Every quarterly supplementary roll contains hundreds of thousands names of newly registered voters. Any political party would need more time to scrutinise all the names to ensure they are free of flaws."
Therefore , he urged the EC to extend the objection period to three months in order to minimise the mistakes in the roll.
According to electoral laws, the EC has to update the electoral roll every three months with a quarterly supplementary electoral roll draft.
The names of all newly-registered voters, voters who have changed their residential addresses and voters who have been removed from the electoral roll, are compiled in the supplementary electoral roll draft.
The roll is then displayed usually for a week, for public scrutiny before being gazetted and used in the following election.
During the display period, the public can raise objections but there is a RM10 fee levied on each objection, and a RM200 penalty for every rejected objection.
Wu criticised the penalty as being unreasonable because the complainent should not be held responsible for the EC's mistakes.
He called on the EC to do away the levy and penalty.
In a statement issued today, DAP assistant organising secretary Vincent Wu (left) argued that it is not necessary for military personnel spouses to register as postal voters as they are not on duty on polling day.He still fails to comprehend why after the 2008 general election, the EC wants them to cast their ballots through the post.
Under current election laws, spouses of military and police personnel are given a choice to register as ordinary or postal voters.
The opposition has been disputing the practice of postal voting, claiming that it is not transparent and open to manipulation as well as tampering.
On Tuesday, DAP youth chief Anthony Loke claimed that about two dozen voters had been found to have registered under the civilian MyKads of their army spouses.
"They use the ordinary ICs of their husbands to register but under the wives' names - a wife could still have the ordinary voter's right so she might be able to vote twice," said the MP for Rasah.
In the statement, Wu also wanted the EC to overhaul the postal voting system.
Currently the EC is mulling replacing the current system with advance voting, an early voting exercise that can be monitored by the agents of political parties.
One week provision criticised
The currect exercise of providing the public only one week to scrutinise and raise objections to the quarterly supplementary electoral roll draft is also disputed by Wu.
"Every quarterly supplementary roll contains hundreds of thousands names of newly registered voters. Any political party would need more time to scrutinise all the names to ensure they are free of flaws."
Therefore , he urged the EC to extend the objection period to three months in order to minimise the mistakes in the roll.
According to electoral laws, the EC has to update the electoral roll every three months with a quarterly supplementary electoral roll draft.
The names of all newly-registered voters, voters who have changed their residential addresses and voters who have been removed from the electoral roll, are compiled in the supplementary electoral roll draft.
The roll is then displayed usually for a week, for public scrutiny before being gazetted and used in the following election.
During the display period, the public can raise objections but there is a RM10 fee levied on each objection, and a RM200 penalty for every rejected objection.
Wu criticised the penalty as being unreasonable because the complainent should not be held responsible for the EC's mistakes.
He called on the EC to do away the levy and penalty.
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