ONLY 3 WERE REMOVED

The identity of these three voters was under the spotlight recently when an e-mail claiming that three of them were "underage" voters as the first two numbers of their identity card started with 91, 98 and 99 respectively was widely circulated.

Two of the alleged "underage voters" were from the Sabak Bernam parliamentary constituency while another was from Sepang.

Centenarians' removed from electoral roll
Pauline Puah and Regina William (Sun2Surf)

PETALING JAYA (Jan 16, 2008): Three registered voters believed to be over 100 years old had been removed from the latest Supplementary Electoral Roll.

According to the record of the Quarter Four, 2007 Supplementary Electoral Roll which is being displayed for verification until tomorrow, the names of the three "centenarians" had been removed due to "death".

Should the Election Commission (EC) receive no protest over the erased names, then the three names would be removed permanently once the roll is gazetted.

The identity of these three voters was under the spotlight recently when an e-mail claiming that three of them were "underage" voters as the first two numbers of their identity card started with 91, 98 and 99 respectively was widely circulated.

Two of the alleged "underage voters" were from the Sabak Bernam parliamentary constituency while another was from Sepang.

An EC official told theSun the three were actually born in 1890s which the system of the National Registration Department was unable to identify. The first two digits of an identify card only indicate the year of birth in the 20th century (from 1900).

Last week, EC chairman Tan Sri Abdul Rahman Abdul Rashid was quoted as saying that the electoral roll is now free of dubious voters. (BULLSHIT !!!)

He had said his office had deleted from the rolls thousands of names of non-citizens and people who had died.

He also said the commission’s efforts in cleaning up the rolls were hampered by the attitude of those that failed to report the deaths of voters. More...