The Strategic Evaluation & Advancement Team (SEAT) spent almost a good two months analysing the electoral roll.
Among other things, the team sought to identify voters whose Mykads bore the middle digit ’71’, thus indicating that such voters were born overseas.
253,000 such voters were noted.
A criteria was used to try and distinguish those who were most likely overseas-born Malaysians from those who might be foreigners who have been given citizenship.
In respect of the second group mentioned above, a second criteria was used to try and identify those who had acquired their citizenship legitimately and distinguish these from the ‘warganegara segera’.
This exercise disclosed that a large number of those with the middle digits ’71’ in their Mykads are in fact overseas-born Malaysians.
Of the others, those suspected of being warganegara segera have been noted, are being investigated, and will be looked out for at their polling stations on polling day.
That is all I will say about these possible warganegara segera.
There is, though, a bigger concern.
In early February, whilst in Kulim, I received information of about 15,000 Myanmar migrants, now with Mykads, being holed up in Langkawi and waiting to be deployed.
Along with the Mykad, they’ve also had issued to them local birth certificates and given very local-sounding names.
Which means their Mykads do not contain the middle digits ’71’, and its next to impossible to spot them in the electoral roll.
Based on information from sources within the NRD, the 15,000 in Langkawi is just the tip of the iceberg.
We are told that the number of such-like warganegara segera is close to two million.
I cannot say how accurate this information is but looking at what emerged from the Sabah RCI, I think we have every reason to be concerned.
Written warnings have been and will continue to be delivered to the migrant workers not to show up to vote on polling day.
Is this enough?
What if they still turn up to vote on polling day?
Look the other way?
Take photographs as evidence to support election petitions to be filed into courts subservient to UMNO?
For obvious reasons, I shall not detail here the plan that has been put in place by TAHAN, other than to say it has been well thought through.
Does anyone else have a plan?
If so, ABU would be grateful to hear from you as soon as possible.
If not, please, let us get on with the job.
As for those Malaysians who have the middle digits ’71’ in their Mykad and who appear concerned that the TAHAN folk might get in the way of their voting, let me put it this way.
You live in a gated community where your friends who are intent on entering to visit you are required to disclose their Mykad, most likely to foreign security guards?
Given the ever-increasing crime rate, you expect your visitors to understand and co-operate?
Well, on polling day, you know the TAHAN folk are on your side and are there to make sure your vote is not diluted by unwelcome warganegara segera. Give them your understanding and o-operation and everything will be fine.
Paul Warren
April 14, 2013
What happens if polling agents insist on these people filling Form 11? May be annoying to them, but may be intimidating enough for them to discourage their friends from coming…presumably these guys will come escorted to driven past the ABU group…then the final defence would be the polling agents.
jessyjames
April 14, 2013
people need to queue up on election day and while waiting for your turn, try speaking to the one infront or at the back in bahasa if you are suspicious of his citizenship. if he speaks with an foreign accent or refuse to speak, notify party observers immediately after you have voted
ShakirinaLIkram
April 14, 2013
What about CEGAH or TEGAH, because EC and NRD are BUMNO Government agencies, Its been ongoing since Tun Mustapha times in Sabah and God knows when in Malaya! Certainly earlier than 1982! Must have been promised the moon for their treacheries and crimes against the nation. It is committed by the Home Minister and Prime Minister’s agencies so how and who will act on complaints? Already the ERs are littered with the dead and phantoms, multiple names ICs.
Overseas born constitute how many? As every vote counts, CEGAH & TEGAH MAY not lead to fisticuffs and worse. But we mean to check these `Pendatangs’ and the GOM better take us seriously.
BUMNOs have `tak de kerja’ Army, PGK and Police as well SOSMA to threaten us. Lady Ambiga says Peacefully done or that old macai TAI will be flagging us down!
Word has it also these Indons and the rest of the Instants have been furnished with blue ICs and fake Birth Certs, by NRD via the Imm. to BUMNO PKA agencies before they recruit! It is not something recent but has been done as early as 2011!
These foreigners will not come alone more like bus loads because they will have to be spirited OUT ASAP! The only option we have is to check them in Malay or English. If they are `instant voters’ than make an example of them to the rest!
How and how bad? Ayyaiyai! Ta them kow2
We really need a BERSIH vigilante corp!
It sure is a tough call and we all need to pitch in to make this work!
Phua Kai Lit
April 14, 2013
One article on “stolen elections” in Africa:
http://www.africanliberty.org/content/kenya%E2%80%99s-stolen-election-lessons-zimbabwe
Phua Kai Lit
April 14, 2013
Here’s a better article on dealing with stolen elections:
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1129-26.htm
Another Anak Bangsa Malaysia
April 14, 2013
Haris,
Perhaps there are readers of this blog who know Langkawi well and can verify the info you have received. After 15,000 humans cannot be that easy to hide.
Notwithstanding what’s in Langkawi, the “foreigner” effect is likely to be significant in PRU13.
What options are there to dilute the “foreigner” influence besides Ops TAHAN?
Eeerrrr… not many options… in fact, none besides standing by idly and doing nothing.
democracy4now
April 14, 2013
On what to do with suspected voters: an example of what can be done is provided by another experience from another context. Some Republican party folks in US-Esp in Southern states, instituted voters challenge procedures in the Election administration in numerous states to enable them to challenge the identities of suspicious voters registered by the Democrats. In that context the voters are more likely to be genuine, disadvantaged voters, among the Blacks and Hispanic communities-but with a sprinkling of `Santa Claus’ and `Britney Spear’ registered under dubious circumstances.
Adopted to Malaysian context: the Polling agents and Barong agents can be alerted to do more thorough check on the suspected voters eg language proficiency. How to stop them if they carry `genuine’ documents will be a tough job given that we have no voters challenge procedure in place. However if the exercise pick up a few instant citizens it could become some grounds for election petition later. So someone need to take down full details from the suspected voters-including their photos, address and place of work etc. Strangely you need to be friendly to those `suspects’ to get their cooperation, if any.
Farida
April 14, 2013
If there are more than 10 salurans per polling station, some salurans are likely to be classrooms that are upstairs. Those aged below 40 will have to vote upstairs, and these would include the warganegara segera.
What if unused classrooms upstairs were used to ‘store’ these people early in the day, before 8am? They would have bypassed the barung area which is the rakyat’s first line of defence. Since each voter’s saluran number is already available on the net, all they would need to do is step out of the classrooms at an opportune time to vote.
annabrella
April 15, 2013
The Dangling Conversation
Written and sung by Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel
It’s a still life water colour
Of a now late afternoon
As the sun shines through the curtain-lace
And shadows wash the room
And we sit and drink our coffee
Couched in our indifference
Like shells upon the shore
You can hear the ocean roar
In the dangling conversation
And the superficial sighs
The borders of our lives
And you eat your Emily Dickinson
And I my Robert Frost
And we note our place with book-markers
That measure what we’ve lost
Like a poem poorly written
We are verses out of rhythm
Couplets out of rhyme
In syncopated time
And the dangling conversation
And the superficial sighs
Are the borders of our lives
Yes, we speak of things that matter
With words that must be said
Can analysis be worthwhile?
Is the theatre is really dead?
And how the room is softly faded
And I only kiss your shadow
I cannot feel your hand
You’re a stranger now unto me
Lost in the dangling conversation
And the superficial sighs
In the borders of our lives
So, let’s cut all the dangling conversations and superficial crap if at all possible and not waste any more energy attacking or hurling abuse at people like RPK, Ambiga and others and instead concentrate single-mindedly on the real enemies in this last ditch fight to save Malaysia from the true devils of real evil
I value my privacy and democratic and civil rights just as much, if not more than, others so am not at all keen on partaking or associating myself with any vigilante sorts or types of activity, like that done by RELA for instance, or even some of the more unconscionable busybody type of local spying activities done on one’s neighbours and others, like that condoned by Rukun Tetangga under its mild-mannered guise of a responsible neighbourhood watch scheme. Why do you need RELA or RT anyway when you can have an effective Rule of Law working efficiently for everyone and a decent police force in place to enforce law and order? It is not the citizens remit to do those sorts of activities, provided they have taken care to elect the right sorts of representatives to their parliament from which they can ensure a right-minded government comes into power.
However that is only theory in Malaysia at present. As general elections are vital, they must be squeaky clean if they are to deliver a fair result for the electorate from the basis of a level election playing field. That is the only way to produce a legitimate result which everyone can accept and be confidence that it has been arrived at based on the agreed rules in place and so can be safely viewed as having the genuine force of the electorate’s voluntary mandate which the election winners can then take away and apply to govern the nation during that fixed/agreed term of office.
But we know the coming general election is not going to be free and fair or even clean as there is considerable evidence to suggest the electoral roll has been rigged to the hilt with (circa two million!) false citizens who have no democratic right to be on the roll and so should not have been put on there. The situation is so dire that it is clear the official regulator/guardian of general elections in Malaysia, the Election Commission, has failed the electorate and cannot now offer the necessary assurance of a guarantee that the elections will be conducted freely, fairly and be 100% above board.
That means the key democratic principle of a government elected by the people for the people and of the people enabled through the mechanism of “one equal citizen, one equal vote” has been hijacked by UMNO/BN and dismantled through their creation of various foreign nationals into instant Maggi Mee noodle “citizens”. Since those in the EC haven’t got a clue on how to sort out the mess, it is now left up to real citizens to find all the “false citizens” and weed out their “false votes” form contaminating the election result, and very probably to the advantage of UMNO/BN.
So although I abhor vigilantism of any kind and completely agree that “an eye/tooth for an eye/tooth will make us all blind and toothless in the end” I also know the electoral roll is dangerously rigged with these circa two million false citizens with two million false votes that can pass as real votes. Since the general election is where it all really counts in the end if one wants Malaysia to get a fighting chance of change from the status quo back to regaining her democratic birthright and heritage and original Constitution, and since the odds are now stacked overwhelmingly against fair elections being the reality, I find that at this point in time I am faced with no choice but to take some carefully calculated risks and stretch my principles as far as I can without breaking or losing them altogether. That is why I am supporting ABU’s considered TAHAN action. I am willing to put my reservations aside for now and trust in the leadership skills, insight and foresight that I see in Haris Ibrahim and in the assurance he has given that the ABU TAHAN tactics will be non-violent and will be conducted by trained ABU volunteers in as diplomatic a way as is possible, given the realities now on the ground in Malaysia.
Now do you see the practical difficulties and the devils in the details which block and clog up the proper functioning of a nation state and its administrative machinery when constitutional/institutional regulators fail in their remits of independence and impartiality and get bullied and hijacked off their remits by the thoroughly dishonourable activities of those who are unaccountable and unprincipled as members of the Legislative and Executive? Now do you see why all decent and good Malaysians have to come together and win GE13 decisively so you can begin to clean up the country and send all relevant and proven UMNO/BN bastards and their sycophantic cronies to prison for wrecking Malaysia’s democracy?
Every real citizen has to come out and vote to protect their voting power from being diluted and try to compensate for these two million instant noodle false citizens and illegal voters’ votes. They will also have to persuade all their family members to go out and vote too. It will be extremely hard to spot or stop false citizens/voters from voting on polling day due to the (necessarily) tough election laws that are in place to protect the election process and voters from intimidation of any sort.
At the same time, join and help ABU to reach out and find as many of these instant noodle citizens and illegal voters as is possible to find BEFORE 5 May 2013 and talk to them sensibly, politely and very importantly, in a friendly manner to win their trust. Why not make an effort to find at least a dozen each for every one real voter/citizen. Tell these illegal aliens and migrant workers what the problem is and that they are breaking the law if they vote without a legitimate right to do so. Tell them that’s irrespective of any threats they may be under even though one can empathise how hard it must be for them to live in poverty and also in fear. Tell them that UMNO/BN will not protect them and do not care about them. Tell them that decent Malaysians do care about them and have every intention of finding a workable and humane solution for refugees/illegal aliens once the elections are over and after Malaysians have changed their current ineffective government. Tell them that if they insist on voting regardless, then they will leave real Malaysians no choice after the change in government other then to deport all false instant noodle citizens who voted illegally without offering them any further understanding or avenue for appeal to remain in Malaysia.
“Imagine Power To The People” John Lennon.
taikohtai
April 15, 2013
Holy cr*p! Looks like you have a war in your hands bro. Over 250,000 aliens armed to the teeth by EC waiting to pounce on May 5! Crikey! You need every Rambo, Ghostbuster, Mat Kilau, Hang Tuah, Harry Potter, Jedi, Bruce Lee, etc to push back the devils. May the FORCE be with you!
Benjamin Rajendram
April 16, 2013
The time has come for the Rakyat to stand united through this storm! ABU til the end!