Shahidan Kassim’s Latest Expose That No Chemicals Were Used In The Indelible Ink But Only Food Colouring Has Reinforced Public Demands That The Entire Election Commission’s(EC) Resign (en/cn)

Press Statement By DAP Secretary-General And MP For Bagan Lim Guan Eng In Kuala Lumpur On 29.6.2013.

Shahidan Kassim’s Latest Expose That No Chemicals Were Used In The Indelible Ink But Only Food Colouring Has Reinforced Public Demands That The Entire Election Commission’s(EC) Resign For Defrauding The People And Abuse Of Public Funds And Power.

Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Shahidan Kassim’s latest expose that no chemicals were used in the indelible ink but only food colouring has reinforced public demands that the entire Election Commission’s(EC) must resign for defrauding the people and abuse of public funds and power. In a parliamentary written answer to DAP MP for Segambut Lim Lip Eng, Shahidan Kassim said the indelible ink did not last a week as promised because all the chemicals in the ink were replaced by food colouring.

Shahidan’s admission debunked EC’s previous claims that silver nitrate was used in the ink and was supposed to last seven days. This latest revelation comes after Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr S Subramaniam openly contradicted EC Chair Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof’s claims that the EC consulted the Health Ministry regarding the safety of the indelible ink by stating that the Health Ministry had never issued such a report.

Tan Sri Abdul Aziz had previously told the Straits Times of Singapore in a May 12 interview that the Health Ministry had advised against adding more than one percent of silver nitrate to the ink, which would have made the ink last. The EC was indirectly blaming the Health Ministry for refusing to allow an extra 1% of silver nitrate and causing EC to waste RM 7.1 million on purchasing the indelible ink fiasco that could be easily washed off.

To date Tan Sri Abdul Aziz has failed to produce the letter from the Health Ministry that stated putting more than one percent of silver nitrate in the ink could damage the kidney and cause cancer, a letter that the Health Minister himself denied ever issuing. How many more lies must the public endure from the EC Chairman and Deputy Chairman?

Shahidan in another reply to Seremban MP Anthony Loke that the total cost was RM7.1 million, added that the EC cannot reveal the name of the ‘indelible’ ink supplier because of security reasons. It is ridiculous that the national security of Malaysia can be threatened or riots will take place if the supplier of the indelible ink that wasted RM 7.1 million funds is made public.

Did PR Lose The Perak State Government Cleanly And Fairly?
EC has still refused to respond to the switching of election results between BN and PR as exposed by DAP Perak publicity chief Wong Kah Woh for the Jelapang state seat in Perak. DAP’s Borang 14 for Polling Stream 3 at SRJK (C) Lahat shows DAP candidate Teh Hock Ke having obtained 330 votes, compared with 137 votes for the BN. However, the result for this stream announced by the EC was in the reverse, with the BN said to have received 330 votes against 137 for the DAP. The EC backed this with a different Borang 14.

Wong said the EC’s version of the result, which has been gazetted, is highly unlikely because the DAP’s parliamentary candidate Batu Gajah that covered Jelapang state seat, V. Sivakumar garnered 373 votes in that stream, compared with BN’s 141 votes. In the other four streams at the SRJK (C) Lahat polling station, Teh garnered between 58 and 67 percent of the popular votes and won Jelapang with more than 70% of the votes.

What is shocking is Wong’s suspicion that one of the Borang 14 is likely to have been forged, because the handwriting for the figures in the copies of the form with the DAP and the EC are similar, but the signatures of the DAP, BN and Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) counting agents and the presiding officer are different on the two forms.

DAP won Jelapang with 16,921 votes, a majority of 12,266 votes compared with the 4,655 votes received by BN and 2,568 votes won by PSM. Although the discrepancy will not cost DAP the Jelapang seat, Wong correctly said it would have made a difference in marginal seats such as Lubok Merbau, Manjoi and Pasir Panjang. Indeed this can change the final result as to which party forms the Perak state government as BN won Perak by 3 seats with 31-28 seats.

BN’s Retention Of the EC Shows That The Basic Democratic Principle Of “One-Person, One-Vote, One-Value” Will Be Violated.

There can be no politically and morally legitimate government when BN won the smallest 112 parliamentary seats that comprise a mere 20% of the voters to form the Federal government. What type of legitimacy is enjoyed by a government that only enjoys 47% popular support as compared to 51% by the opposition? The average parliamentary constituency size of a BN seat is 46,510 voters compared to PR’s 77,655 voters.

BN’s retention of the EC shows that the basic democratic principle of “one-person, one-vote, one-value” will be violated. The striking contrast of PR’s seat of Kapar with 160,000 voters with BN Putrajaya of around 16,000 voters highlights the unfair delineation of constituencies by EC that is weighted heavily in BN’s favour.

As EC Deputy Chair Datuk Wan Ahmad was EC Secretary during the last constituency delineation exercise in 2002, how can the rakyat expect natural justice? The entire EC must resign because they have no integrity and public credibility to carry out a clean, free and fair redelinenation of constituencies that fully respects the principle of “one-person, one-vote, one-value”.

Lim Guan Eng

—–Mandarin Version —-

民主行动党秘书长兼峇眼区国会议员林冠英于2013年6月29日在吉隆坡发表声明:

沙希丹卡欣最近揭露不褪色墨水中并没有化学物质,只有食物色素,再次让公众进一步要求整个选委会辞职的要求,因为他们欺骗人民、滥用公帑及权力。

首相署部长沙希淡卡欣最近揭露,不褪色墨水中并没有化学物质,只有食物色素,再次让公众进一步要求整个选委会辞职的要求,因为他们欺骗人民、滥用公帑及权力。在国会写给行动党泗岩沫区国会议员林立迎的国会书面回答中,沙希丹卡欣说,不褪色墨水并没有持续一个星期,因为所有的墨水的化学物质都被食物色素取代。

沙希淡承认揭穿了选委会之前的声明 ,指不褪色墨水中含硝酸银,原本可以维持七天不褪色,而卫生部长拿督斯里苏巴玛廉最近公开反驳选委会丹斯里阿都阿兹,他说选委会曾向卫生部咨询关于不褪色墨水的安全性,他说卫生部从来没有发表这样的报告。

丹斯里阿都阿兹之前在5月12日告诉新加坡《海峡时报》,卫生部曾经建议增加1%的硝酸银,让墨水可以维持久一点。选委会间接性责怪卫生部不允许1%硝酸银,导致选委会浪费了710万令吉却采购了一批可轻易洗脱的墨水丑闻。

至今为至,丹斯里阿都阿兹还是拿不出卫生部的信,说明如果加入1%的硝酸银,可能会破坏肾和导致癌症,卫生部长本身也否认他发出过这封信。公众还要忍受选委会主席和副主席多少谎言?

沙希淡在回复芙蓉区国会议员陆兆福时说,不褪色墨水总开销为710万令吉,加上选委会基于安全理由不能公开墨水供应商的名字。浪费了710万公帑后,如果说公开上述墨水供应商的名字会危害国家安全或导致动乱,这是荒谬的。

民联是不是在干净及公平的情况下输掉霹雳州政府

选委会还是拒绝回答国阵和民联的选票成绩被对调的问题,正如霹雳州行动党宣传主任黄家和所揭发的九洞州议席的选票成绩那样。在拿乞华小投票站三号票箱,行动党的表格14显示行动党候选人郑福基获得330张票,国阵获得137张票。但是,选委会宣布这个票箱时却将成绩对调,说国阵获得330张票,而行动党获得137张票,而选委会以另一张表格14来支持他们的做法。

黄家和说选委会已经在宪报上公布的版本看来不可能,因为九洞州选区所处的华都牙也国会选区行动党候选人西华古玛在上述票箱获得373张选票,而国阵只获得141张。在拿乞华小另外四个票箱,郑福基都获得58%至67%的多数票,以70%得票率赢得九洞。

最惊人的是,黄家和怀疑其中一张表格14已经被造假,因为在行动党及选委会各自所持的表格字体一样,但是行动党、国阵及社会主义党计票员及现场官员的签名却不一样。

行动党在九洞赢得1万6921张选票,多数票为1万2266张,国阵获得4655张,而社会主义党获得2568张。虽然上述差别并没有导致行动党失去议席,但是这种偷龙转凤的做法在一些票数微差的议席如:鲁博马坡、曼锐、巴锡班尖却能影响输赢。这甚至可以改变最后谁执政霹雳州政府的结果,因为国阵正好以3议席(31:28)赢得州政权。

国阵继续保留选委会证明“一人、一票、一价”的民主原则将会照旧被违反。

当国阵赢得史上最少的112个国会议席(20%的选民)来成立联邦政府时,这不会是政治上、伦理上合法的政府。当执政党只有47%的支持率,而在野党却有51%的支持率,这是什么合法政府?国阵所赢得的国会选区选民人数平均为4万6510人,而民联选区的选民人数平均为7万7655人。

国阵继续保留选委会证明“一人、一票、一价”的民主原则将会照旧被违反。最明显的差距是民联加埔国会选区选民达16万人,而国阵布城国会选区选民只有1万6000人,突显了选区划分多么不公平,严重地偏向国阵 。

由于选委会副主席拿督旺阿末在2002年选区重新划分时任职选委会秘书,人民还能相信这当中有自然公义吗?整个选委会必须辞职,因为他们已经不再廉正、丧失公信力,无法执行实现“一人、一票、一价”原则的干净、公平选区划分。

林冠英

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