HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT EVERY SINGLE RECOUNT RESULTS IN BN GETTING A HIGHER VOTE COUNT?

by Jason  Lim

May 07, 2013

 HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT EVERY SINGLE RECOUNT RESULTS IN BN GETTING A HIGHER VOTE COUNT?

This election is so freaking confusing and non-transparent. I can’t find impartial information anywhere, even if I were trying to just find the facts. How come the Counting Agents are silent? Why are numbers different depending on the sources I visit? I decided to form my own conclusions and pulled the entire result list from the SPR website and collated them, in the sincere hope that SPR is as factual as it gets. Several observations have me rather irked, and I hope all of you my friends as thinking, rational people consider these facts.

i) EC said voter turnout was around 80%, among the highest, if not the highest in the world. My spreadsheet has it at 84.6%. Every time I hear something like “Highest in the world” I get really suspicious. However there being no compulsory registration, I will take this with a pinch of salt.

ii) The balance of power is hanging on a very thin edge, and it is vexing to think that it is POSSIBLE that a small sleight of hand can shift the balance. Let me give an example: There were 25 parliamentary seats that PR lost on a margin of less than 2000 votes. The actual number is 26916 votes across 25 seats. This means if only 26931 people( less than half a % of registered voters) voted for the opposition, PR would be in power now. For those who don’t believe me I encourage you to do your homework, the seats are: 003,012,018,026,029,053,058,067,078,089,092,093,096,

118,119,140,142,144,146,158,159,168,177,182,220

iii) By my calculation, for parliamentary votes BN has 47.4%, PR 50.9%, Others 1.7%

Why do my number seem different as compared to various sources? I’m not saying anything about gerrymandering if that’s what you’re thinking, but I do question the transparency of information. The entire rakyat should be able to scrutinize the process and be able to access the information readily. SPR gives me the behind-closed-doors white smoke from the chimney kind of feeling.

iv) Why do all the recounts seem to favour a certain party? As I do not have first hand information(read: say something counting agents), I will not speculate on this one.

It’s just sad that the ruling coalition they can attempt to reassure the public that the results are fair and transparent by a very simple SHOW AND TELL, yet they choose SMOKE AND MIRRORS. I choose to view internet news as biased and sentimentalist, but seriously, all the public is looking for is the truth. I mean, why cover up and secretly deliver ballot boxes if they belong to a particular centre? Just show it and deliver it with your head held high!

Despite being well prepared with Generators in case of power failure, this still existed during re-counting of ballot papers.

I don’t like the POSSIBILITY that the democratic process in Malaysia was hijacked.

The reason the same thing didn’t happen with Lembah Pantai is the efforts of Bangsarians to prevent fake ballot bags to get through.

For those interested in the full spreadsheet you can download it with macros removed:

Doc1

State data now available: Doc 2

Jason Lim

*The author is a graduate student at the University of Melbourne.