Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah Anwar (left) filed for a judicial review on the electoral roll in her constituency, after finding over 4,000 suspect names on it.
Her lawyer, Edmund Bon said that the case has been filed on March 26, 2013 at the High Court. They named the chief registrar of the Election Commission, the Election Commission, the director of the National Registration Department, and the government of Malaysia as the respondents.
Bon said that unlike a similar review that was sought by Klang MP Charles Santiago before, which was struck out, his client is seeking the review based on Section 25 (2g) of the Election (Registration of Voters) Regulations 2002. According to this regulation, the chief registrar may at any time cancel any names from the electoral roll that he deems to be suspect.
Nurul has written a letter to the EC about the suspect names on March 04, but said that no action has been taken to rectify the roll. According to her, there are at least three voters who are dead, 133 who are non-residents, and 4,637 voters whose addresses are unspecified or incomplete.
Bon believes there are grounds to pursue the judicial review even though Klang MP Charles Santiago’s earlier (similar) application, which was filed on March 14 was struck out. This particular case was based on Section 9A of the Elections Act 1958, meaning that the registration of voters cannot be challenged in court once the electoral roll is gazetted. [The rule was introduced shortly after residents from Likas challenged the presence of foreigners in the electoral roll for the Likas by-election in 2001].
In Nurul’s case, it will be based on Section 25 (2g).
I am not optimistic but what choice do I have?
On Thursday, a trio of Sunway University Business School friends took buddy and colleague Adrian Mitra Nathai – he’s from Trinidad & Tobago – out for lunch to celebrate his birthday!
We checked out a ‘new’ eating place in Sunway Pyramid:
And in the evening, I went to Kelana Jaya to attend the joint Toastmasters meeting between Kelana Bilingual and MAS Mawar. I was the Table Topics Evaluator. I would score this meeting a 4 out of a 10.
The meeting started seven minutes late. And there were only two speakers.
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