KOTA KINABALU: The Election Commission (EC) has warned that any attempt to relocate the voters to any constituency by inducement is an offence under the election regulations.
Issuing the terse warning was EC Sabah branch chairman Datuk Hj Mohd Idrus Bin Ismail during a courtesy call by Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) Api-Api Central Liaison Committee (CLC) led by its chairman, Datuk Wong Yit Ming, yesterday.
Mohd Idrus was responding to an official complaint filed by Wong on a recent voters registration drive suspected to import new Bumiputra voters into Api-Api constituency.
Wong and his delegation also handed over a copy of the police reports and the relevant photos taken at the scene of the said registration exercise to Mohd Idrus to substantiate their claim of the dubious incident.
The said registration exercise was conducted at Likas Square Complex in Likas here, more than a week ago. SAPP Youth members, who rushed to the scene upon been tipped off about the registration exercise, uncovered several discrepancies in the registration method as well as the targeted group identified as new voters.
The SAPP Youth members also discovered that most of the voters were found to be originally from Pitas, Kudat, although some of them are currently residing in Taman Bukit Keramat here.
Mohd Idrus also agreed that the location where the group of registered voters was purportedly from – Taman Bukit Keramat, has no housing. There are only three old detached houses in that particular area with only one house occupied and the other two are empty.
He also mentioned that since this was the case, the transfer of the new voters to Api-Api constituency from that area would not be registered.