PUTRAJAYA, July 22 — Fifteen voters today filed a grievance with the Election Commission for allegedly moving them from their voting constituencies without informing them.
The group led by a Romeyzee Zainuddin appeared today at the EC headquarters alongside polls watchdog Bersih 2.0 to hand over a memorandum to the agency to vent their frustration over being transferred to the Kuala Kubu Baru constituency despite voting in Batang Kali for the past three general elections.
Romeyzee said he was shocked to discover his transfer and that the group was seeking to be returned to their original constituency.
Bersih 2.0 chairman Maria Chin Abdullah claimed that they had submitted details on the transfer of thousands of voters from their respective constituencies to the EC.
She said that the commission has not responded to the matter despite it being a pressing issue.
“We have handed in the data and the EC has promised to look into the issue. They didn’t give us a date.
“It is an urgent matter and we need a response soon. We still haven’t got date but we definitely come back if they don’t respond,” Chin said today.
She added that it was “unconstitutional” for the EC to move the voters without going through a redelineation process.
The data that Bersih 2.0 submitted on July 1 alleged that 118,774 voters were purportedly moved to different state constituencies, with 40,000 voters moved to different parliamentary constituencies.
Serdang MP Ong Kian Ming and Kuala Kubu Baru assemblyman Lee Kee Hiong previously alleged that the EC had misled the public by publishing a federal gazette that merely informed them of changes to the polling centres and districts there when it had actually redrawn the electoral boundary for the seat.
The Kuala Kubu Baru state seat was won by DAP with a 1,702-vote majority in Election 2013 while Barisan Nasional won the Batang Kali state seat with a 5,398-vote majority.
