Police and immigration dept must help eliminate phantom voters
: DPM
PENANG. Thurs: The police and immigration department have been directed
to give all help neccessary so that the Election Commission can
clean the electoral roll of phantom voters.
Describing the statement
by EC Chairman Datuk Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman on the lack of cooperation
from the two agencies as very serious, De Prime Minister Datuk Seri
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said the two agencies are willing to cooperate
with the commission.
Rashid yesterday said
their inaction in relation to the phantom voters issue had led to
the election result of the Likas state constituency being declared
null and void.
He claimed there had
been no response from the departments and this had hampered the
dommission's attempts to de-register those with false identity cards.
"At a post-cabinet
meeting yesterday, I directed National Registation Department director-general
Datuk Azizan Ayob and deputy IGP Datuk Jamil Johari to cooperate
on this matter,"Abdullah said at the opening of infoSoc Malaysia
2001 themed K-Measures:Towards a Knowledge Society at Equatorial
Hotel today.
"I understand
from Azizan that previously when the process used to be carried
out manually, there were many unresolved problems like this but
with computerisation, these problems have to be ironed out."
On the proposal by
the commission to automatically register those who reach the age
of 21, Abdullah said the matter will have to be discussed in the
Prime Minister's Department.
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