No re-election in Julau, says PKR polls committee

PKR POLLS | The PKR election committee (JPP) has announced that there will not be a re-election for the Sarawak division of Julau.

This is as no data or votes were found to be compromised, said JPP chief Rashid Din.

However, he confirmed that six tablets from the voting centre had their electronic voting (e-voting) apps “wiped clean” by the Prey anti-theft app.

“Elections in Julau will not be held a second time.

“This decision was made after analysing the vote count, which showed all data is safe and has since been uploaded to the cloud system.

“This is even though the electronic voting apps on six tablets were wiped clean by Prey.

“Voting details and technical analysis showed that no votes were missing and the voting results can, in fact, be used,” he said in a statement today.

Results for the division would be available online soon, he added.

Julau results were suspended last Saturday after Rashid claimed that Prey had been used to delete the PKR e-voting app, steal data, change passwords and remotely control several tablets.

This was following PKR deputy president candidate Rafizi Ramli’s complaint that the tablets had been hacked by Prey, further labelling the app "malware”.

The company behind Prey has since released a statement stating that it is not malware, but in fact, an anti-theft software. It also clarified that its data deletion function did not allow administrators to selectively delete data.

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