NEW BUSINESS: SELLING BALLOT PAPER

Jobless man caught selling ballot paper
malaysiakini
A man in his 50s was nabbed in Bagan Jemal, Penang, this morning for attempting to sell his ballot paper.

At about 9am, the unemployed man (photo, man in red shirt) approached DAP volunteers at its Bagan Jemal operations centre and offered to sell them his ballot papers.

He told them that he was jobless and wanted money for the ballot paper from the SK Jalan Manjung polling station.

The man was detained by police 30 minutes later. Selling ballot papers is an offence under the Section 3 (1)(e) of the Election Offences Act 1954.

The Bagan Jemal state seat sees a straight fight between MCA’s Ooi Chuan Aik and DAP’s Lim Hock Seng (photo, left). Ooi won the seat in 2004 with a 3,337-vote majority.

Meanwhile, DAP candidate Lim discovered to his chagrin that his wife won't be voting for him.

The Bagan Jemal state seat hopeful said he found out two weeks ago that his wife, who shares the same MyKad address as him, was placed under the Bagan Dalam constituency.

According to Lim, his wife had previously voted in the Bagan Jemal constituency.

Bagan Dalam is being contested by DAP's Tanasekharan Audherapady and MIC's PK Subbaiyah.

Both the state seats fall under the Bagan parliamentary seat, contested by DAP secretary-general Lin Guan Eng.