1,029 phantom voters in Pelabuhan Klang: Santiago

KLANG: The Pelabuhan Klang state seat is believed to have at least 1,029 phantom voters, including 500 new ones who apparently have been transferred in from Malacca, Perak and Sabah, said Pakatan Harapan’s Klang parliament candidate Charles Santiago ( pix).

He claimed that the 500 new voters were registered in Kampung Idaman, Pandamaran Jaya and Teluk Gong which falls under the Klang parliament.

In identifying these anomalies within the constituency, Santiago said his team also discovered multiple voters with the same address, at houses which were too small to accommodate the number of people who supposedly registered there as voters, and houses and roads that appeared to be nonexistent.

“Examples include 27 voters purportedly registered under a single address in 26, Jalan 5, Kampung Idaman; 26 voters at 21, Jalan 8A; and 25 voters at 6, Jalan 1. “Another 10 voters were supposedly registered at 28, Jalan 79 within a span of six months,” he said.

Some addresses such as 26, Jalan 6, and Jalan 8 in Pandamaran Jaya, did not exist as all the houses are odd-numbered, he said.

These houses were around the Pelabuhan Klang constituency, which had become a marginal seat following the Election Commission’s redelineation exercise. No action was taken when his team highlighted the case of 34 Indian and Malay voters apparently registered to a Chinese home at Pandamaran during the 13th general election.