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Date: 19 Aug 1999
Time: 01:08:39
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PBS welcomes assurance
KOTA KINABALU: Parti Bersatu Sabah gave a guarded welcome to the Election Commission's assurance that some 500,000 dubious names were removed from the electoral rolls.
"Any move towards cleansing the electoral rolls is welcomed but we have yet to see if such a problem no longer exists," PBS information chief Hendrynus Amin said.
He said the problem of non-citizens using genuine Malaysian documents obtained through illegal means was more "chronic" in Sabah and the party wanted to know from which states the 500,000 were names removed.
Henrynus was commenting on Election Commission chairman Datuk Omar Mohamed Hashim's statement that 500,000 names had been removed from the rolls since 1990.
In Petaling Jaya, the DAP wants the Election Commission to allow polling agents of candidates to monitor the free casting of postal votes in army and police camps.
DAP secretary-general Lim Kit Siang said the commission would be failing in its constitutional duty to conduct a free and fair election unless such a system was implemented.
"The system is to ensure that the army and police personnel could vote freely, and not under any form of duress or coercion," he said in a press statement.