File photo of a voter showing her inked finger after casting her vote in Permatang Pauh on May 5, 2013. Many people have complained that the indelible ink was not that indelible. — Reuters picPETALING JAYA, May 27 — Thousands are swarming police stations nationwide to lodge reports on the alleged failure of the indelible ink used in the recent general election, answering Pakatan Rakyat’s (PR) call for help with its campaign to prove cheating during Election 2013, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said today.
The PR de facto leader, who lodged the same report this afternoon at the Tropicana police station here with his wife Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, told a press conference that the reports proved an attempt by the authorities to manipulate the results of the polls.
“We have thousands (of reports) thus far... I don’t have the official figures but today, I’ve been informed that all over the country, similar reports have been made.
“We did announce that only those who could satisfy the position, i.e. that they did vote and secondly, that the black ink disappeared either on the first or following day (of the polls),” he said after lodging the report.
At a mammoth NGO-organised rally to protest the polls result last Saturday, PR had urged the public to lodge police reports if they had experienced the alleged premature washing-off of the indelible ink from their fingers on Polling Day.
He said they should do so from Sunday onward up until Monday and send copies of the reports to PR.
“This is to show the power and might of the people. We challenge you according to due process. We also respect the rule of law,” the Permatang Pauh MP said.
He said PR wanted to present a large barrel of the people’s police reports of the Election Commission’s (EC) alleged fraud in court.
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