Statement dated 9 May 2017
The Election Commission has started displaying the draft supplementary electoral roll for the first quarter of the year (Q1 2017).
This will be the first time that the EC is not giving political parties the soft copy of the drafts; nor would political parties be able to buy the hard copy.
The EC did not give any reason for its decision, merely saying that it suffices for interested parties to view the rolls at the 960 designated places across the country.
BERSIH 2.0 disagrees and disputes this as political parties – who have the most at stake in this process – have only 10 days of working hours starting today till 22 May to sift through some 500 pages of one parliamentary constituency with an average of 1,500 names, to make sure that all is in order. And they will need to go through the draft supplementary rolls for all 222 parliamentary constituencies. Read more