Kelantan BN wants EC to detect 'voting angels'

Kelantan BN wants the Election Commission (EC) to come up with a mechanism to detect 'pengundi malaikat' (voting angels).

This following a PAS youth leader's claim that “celestial beings” bearing MyKads would vote for the Islamist party in the upcoming general election.

Maintaining a straight face, BN state secretary Mohd Alwi Che Ahmad (above) said the EC already had successes in detecting phantom voters.

"I plead to the EC, led by Hashim Abdullah, to prepare proper facilities as it won't just be humans who vote, (but also) angels.

"(The EC) can detect phantom voters, but there's no system yet (to detect) angel voters," he said when met after the Kelantan BN manifesto launch in Kota Bharu today.

Che Alwi said there were also concerns that if angels turned up with their MyKads at the polling centres, they would be on the proper electoral roll as all voters had to be registered.

"(And) if the angel impersonates a human and casts a vote, there are concerns that this can cause confusion when the real voter turns up to vote on polling day," he added.

He was responding to Kelantan PAS Youth deputy chief Nor Azariza Mohd Alawi who at a ceramah last week said that god would send his angels to help PAS win the general election.

'Old friend'

Nor Azariza had declared that such angels may be sent in the place of Kelantanese residing in other states who are reportedly unwilling to return home to vote.

"God may send angels who look like them to come back and vote, (the angels) who will carry identity cards and stand in line ahead of us.

"We might bump into our old friend 'Man'. After voting, we might meet his father and ask, 'Has Man gone back to KL?'

"His father might reply, 'He didn't come back (to vote).

"So who was this 'Man' that we saw earlier? It is the angel that god had summoned for this purpose?

"Can God do so? Absolutely," he said. -Mkini