'Enough cloned voters for BN to topple Selangor'

The PAS Youth wing, which has been raising the issue of electoral fraud, claims it has detected tens of thousands of 'cloned voters' who the BN can manipulate in the coming general election.

"The number of dirty registrations of 'cloned voters' is already enough to topple the present Selangor state government.

"Is this what is meant by (Prime Minister) Najib (Abdul Razak) to grab Selangor at all costs?" PAS Youth exco member Mohd Adram Musa asked at a press conference at PAS headquarters in Kuala Lumpur today.

A 'cloned voter' is voter who has two entries in the electoral roll, with same name but slightly different MyKad numbers.

PAS Youth has been releasing names of such voters over the past one month, questioning whether they are allowed to vote twice in elections.

'EC, NRD must explain issue of clones'

Some of the names have been proven to be 'clones' - which the Election Commission admitted and deleted them from the electoral roll as soon as hey were raised.

According to National Registration Department (NRD), these 'clones' are non-active Mykad numbers, which should have been removed from its database.

However, a few of these names are genuinely shared by two different individuals who also have the same date of birth.

These people have come out publicly to slam PAS Youth's action for publicising their details and slandering them.

During the press conference, Mohd Adram together with Johor PAS Youth chief Suhaizan Kaiat (right) issued a 14-day ultimatum to the EC and NRD to explain the issue of 'cloned voters', including the total number of such names in electoral roll, and how many the EC has removed and will remove.

They also urged the NRD to explain how the department verified invalid 'clone identities' that should be removed.

"Does NRD already have a list of 'clone citizens' before PAS Youth made its objection?

"We afraid that the EC may remove the wrong identities," Suhaizan said.

Should the EC fail to provide a satisfactory explanation, he added, PAS Youth would disclose its list of 'cloned voters'.