Clean 3.0?

It might not be safe yet to mention that B----h word, so lets just say Clean 3.0. With Mismah-Gate and the many other permanent resident-cum-voters digged up by Pas, it look like we might have the need for a Clean 3.0 march.

A Bersih 3 against continued electoral fraud?
by Charles Santiago :: Malaysiakini
Aug 4, 11 12:03pm

MP SPEAKS

Sometimes, I cannot help but think that Malaysia's Election Commission is very creative.

This time around, the electoral body is struggling to spin an imaginative yarn over new evidence that clearly shows it has been subtly registering permanent residence (PR) holders as eligible voters.

Following the case of Mismah, who was given a citizenship in a matter of hours to facilitate voter registration, more facts and figures are emerging from the bowels of the government's electoral manipulation to ensure it stays in power.

PAS has found more than 1,000 permanent residence holders in Selangor who have been included in the electoral rolls of eligible voters, confirming the fear that the government will resort to every devious tactic to topple the opposition-led state government.

The Umno-led BN government is clearly cheating to win the next general election.

Such shocking evidence vindicates Bersih 2.0, the coalition for free and fair elections, and underscores the nature of dirty politics in the country.

Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak is well aware of the dissatisfaction and unhappiness of the people against his government and uses his office as the bully pulpit to garner votes by unfairly influencing the Election Commission.

The stunning gains by the opposition in 2008 has led the government to default to a time-tested strategy by engaging in back door deals with public institutions. This is shameless behaviour.

It also demonstrates the lack of openness and accountability on the part of the government and its reluctance to allow for public scrutiny and debates over its decisions.

Following the rally last month, which saw tens of thousands of people taking to the streets to demand for electoral reforms, the government has clamped down even more violently on activists and opposition politicians by nabbing them under emergency laws to curb dissent.

The people remained defiant while Najib and his cabinet ministers refused to take into account that their days are numbered when the rakyat are no longer afraid of the government's show of force.

MyKad with faulty chips

In June, Malaysia unveiled a plan to fingerprint voters to combat electoral fraud. The Election Commission took a whack for this plan, which in itself, is not foolproof.

Many Malaysian identity cards have faulty chips and the EC does not look into serious allegations of vote buying, vote rigging, gerrymandering and the opposition parties' lack of access to the local media.

But evidence of the EC registering foreign-born PR holders caricatures the shadow play by the government to hoodwink the citizens into believing that it is serious about nipping unscrupulous electoral practices.

We cannot allow the government to win the next general election by using phantom voters. The EC must, therefore, be committed to cleaning-up its electoral roll.

If the EC fails to resolve this issue, then the call for Bersih 3 will become a reality.

And when that happens, it will deal the Umno/BN government with a long-postponed death blow.


For those who missed out on Clean 2.0, are you game for Clean 3.0? This is not an enticement or encouragement to partake :-)