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| 100-year-old voters still not verified Posted: 21 Sep 2011 09:11 AM PDT The Sabah Election Commission has yet to finish verifying the 'active' status of centenarian voters.
KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Election Commission (EC) has been urged to verify quickly the "active" status of voters who are over 100 years old. Currently, there are 3,711 registered voters who are over 100 years old in Sabah. Opposition PKR wants the state EC to give a "definitive dateline" as to how fast they can ascertain the "active" status of these centenarians. State PKR secretary Dr Roland Chia said the EC cannot take its time on the issue and offer mere lip service. "During the Batu Sapi by-election in October 2010, the number of centenarians was 156. But now it is 170. "One year has lapsed and still the EC has not taken any action. "The EC should not be just paying lip service. It should set a dateline to verify the status of these voters," he said. Tawau has 264 while Kudat and Kota Kinabalu had 246 and 231 voters respectively who were over 100 years old. Other areas were in Silam (224), Semporna (221), Tuaran (203) and Sandakan (198). "The remaining 2,124 centenarian voters are registered in the remaining 18 parliamentary areas in Sabah," Chia said. He also chastised the state EC for coming up with excuses to delay the verification of their status. "We are not asking the EC to strike out (their names) overnight. But since September 2010, the Batu Sapi electoral roll has yet to be verified and corrected. He added that the EC officials claimed that they could not rectify the matter unless family members of the centenarians came forward. "This is not a good excuse for delaying it," he said.  |
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