SELANGOR Caretaker Selangor Menteri Besar Abdul Khalid Ibrahim has accused Umno of flying in outside voters including army voters and especially from Sabah, to make up part of the electoral roll in the state.
Khalid said this when commenting on the 130,000 voters which appear on the state electoral roll, who he said the state was unable to detect through its democratisation project.
However, Khalid, who is also Selangor Pakatan Rakyat chairperson, did not provide any detail in his statement to substantiate his allegations, other than to say the claims were “based on intelligence”.
“Based on intelligence, we find Umno has carried out activities to bring in outside voters, especially from Sabah, using air transport.
“From our surveillance, (we find) there is a special flight left open for that purpose and landing is carried out in a specific location, and not in the usual locations such as KL International Airport (KLIA) and the Low-Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT).
“We are also informed of actions to bring in army voters from Sabah and Sarawak. This is weird as army personnel and their families are listed as postal voters,” Khalid said in a statement.
He also accused Umno of increasing the number of identity cards it is allegedly handing out to foreigners from Indonesia, Myanmar and Bangladesh.
He claimed that Pakatan was infomred told by the group concerned that the foreigners were issued with MyKad on the condition they pledged to vote for the BN.
On the matter of the undetectable 130,000 names in the electoral role, Khalid said the state government had officially contacted the Election Commission (EC) to work together on tracking these voters.
However, the EC rejected the offer of cooperation from the state government, saying this did not fall under the authority of the state government, Khalid said.
“We hope the EC will carry out monitoring so as to curb those ineligible from voting in the coming general election,” he added.
Khalid said this when commenting on the 130,000 voters which appear on the state electoral roll, who he said the state was unable to detect through its democratisation project.
However, Khalid, who is also Selangor Pakatan Rakyat chairperson, did not provide any detail in his statement to substantiate his allegations, other than to say the claims were “based on intelligence”.
“Based on intelligence, we find Umno has carried out activities to bring in outside voters, especially from Sabah, using air transport.
“From our surveillance, (we find) there is a special flight left open for that purpose and landing is carried out in a specific location, and not in the usual locations such as KL International Airport (KLIA) and the Low-Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT).“We are also informed of actions to bring in army voters from Sabah and Sarawak. This is weird as army personnel and their families are listed as postal voters,” Khalid said in a statement.
He also accused Umno of increasing the number of identity cards it is allegedly handing out to foreigners from Indonesia, Myanmar and Bangladesh.
He claimed that Pakatan was infomred told by the group concerned that the foreigners were issued with MyKad on the condition they pledged to vote for the BN.
On the matter of the undetectable 130,000 names in the electoral role, Khalid said the state government had officially contacted the Election Commission (EC) to work together on tracking these voters.
However, the EC rejected the offer of cooperation from the state government, saying this did not fall under the authority of the state government, Khalid said.
“We hope the EC will carry out monitoring so as to curb those ineligible from voting in the coming general election,” he added.
Malaysiakini is in the midst of contacting BN Selangor deputy chairperson Noh Omar, coordinator Mohd Zin Mohamed, and Umno secretary-general Tengku Adnan Mansor for comment, but they are thus far unreachable.
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