KOTA KINABALU: The shocking jump of 574,120 new voters in Sabah, as reported in local media today, is most likely due to the inclusion of many dubious Mykad holders from the past “Project IC” era.
This is because many of the holders of dubious citizenship (ICs or Mykads) were not registered as voters as they (the dubious citizen) fear detection of by the authorities if they surface to register physically and personally at SPR (election commission) or other government offices.
The automatic registration of voters was created by the former Pakatan/Warisan government in 2019. But once the automatic registration of voters came into effect all the Mykads/ICs in the JPN (National Registration Department) database were automatically registered as voters.
A preliminary inspection of the 2022 election rolls revealed that many of the new voters are aged more than 30 years old, some as old as 60 years, categorised as “Lama Layak, Baru Daftar”.
It is impossible that so many middle-aged people are only now (in 2020-2022) registering as voters. Most, if not all, genuine citizen above 30 years old are already voters before 2018.
Therefore, this category of new middle-aged voters, are almost all suspicious voters. These are not the Undi 18 voters.
As such SAPP calls on the SPR (Election Commission) to immediately do a forensic audit and indepth investigation of new voters to filter out dubious voters before polling day.
SPR and the Police must also warn holders of dubious Mykads that they face arrest if they are caught.
Sabah IC the long term solution.
In the longer term, before the next Sabah general election, the complete solution to the Project IC tragedy is to have our Sabah IC in order to filter out dubious citizenship documents inherited from the tragic past.
It is no wonder that 7,000 new voters at one illegal foreigner squatter settlement have been detected. Located behind One Borneo, this illegal settlement was almost gazetted as a village in 2019 by the former Warisan illegal government, as it was proposed by the then MP for Sepanggar.-pr/SAPP
