PKR reveals allegation of fraud in advance voting

PKR today revealed two police reports that were lodged regarding alleged fraud that had happened during the advance voting process for the 13th general election.

Party director of strategy Rafizi Ramli (left) said that one of the police reports lodged was regarding an incident which took place in Malacca, where an Election Commission (EC) officer allegedly counted ballot papers before the actual counting time.

The second police report was regarding a ballot box that allegedly arrived late to a counting centre in Gerik, Perak, for counting, causing the ballots from the particular box to be rejected by officials.

"There are doubtful circumstances in advance voting when not even 8 percent from all election results favoured Pakatan," he said during a press conference at PKR headquarters today.

"So in a situation where we had 250,000 advance voters, today we are raising our misgivings about such things.”

In the Malacca incident, PKR's counting agent Abu Hussin Tamby alleged to have seen about seven to eight individuals donning EC uniforms counting the ballots in a police lock-up.

According to the report, which was lodged on May 2, the ballot box for early voting was brought from the early voting centre at the Lubok China police station to the lock-up at the Alor Gajah police district headquarters on April 30.

This is despite EC setting rules that the advance voting ballots be counted on the election day on May 5.

"After accompanying officers to keep the ballot boxes in the lock-up, I managed to witness officers in EC uniforms counting the ballot papers," Abu Hussin, 42, said in his police report.

In the incident that took place in Gerik, meanwhile, another PKR counting agent Shairi Md Tajuddin alleged in his report that a postal ballot bag from a polling centre in Pengkalan Hulu did not arrive at the counting centre by the stipulated time on May 5.

He blamed the delay on the EC, which had resulted in the postal ballot bag being rejected, said Shahiri, 48, in his May 15 report.

"I believe this is an offence that was committed on purpose by EC for the purpose of fraud in ensuring a win for Umno and BN in Gerik parliamentary seat and the Pengkalan Hulu state seat," he said in his report.