
Ethnic Chinese seen at the Election Commission’s office in Shah Alam to verify themselves as eligible voters. — Picture courtesy of Elaine Lee, taken from MMO.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 11 — The Election Commission has rejected allegations that specific communities were being singled out using objections against their registrations as new voters.
EC chairman Datuk Seri Mohd Hashim Abdullah said all objections or registrations for new voters are done in accordance with Article 119 of the Federal Constitution and without any discrimination.
“When there is an objection, the EC will process it fairly without looking at his or her voting area, age, gender or religion.
“Registrations that have been objected involved all races, and not limited to any one race,” he told Malay Mail Online.
Malay Mail Online had earlier reported of one such incident, involving a Chinese woman’s boyfriend in Selangor.
She had claimed that there were mostly Chinese Malaysians at the EC’s office in Shah Alam, who received objection letters to be voters when they went to the office Monday morning. Read more