What is phantom voter? Phantom voter is a person who is not residing in a parliamentary or state constituency but who is a voter in that constituency. A phantom voter is also considered not a local or a person who is born and bred in that particular area. A phantom voter is also seen as a stranger in that particular area and could have never been to the said area unless there is an election going on. Phantom voters are normally heavily sponsored by the BN via offers of cash, valuables and benefits like free transportation, food, lodgings, accommodations as well as limited shopping incentives for their votes cast in each electoral constituencies.
Well, a very large number of phantom voter were discovered by PKR elections operations team recently confirming that a housing estate was fully infested by these phantom voters believed to have been implanted by BN and Umno in order for them to gain additional and more votes in the by-election or general elections.
What did the PKR members actually found? A particular single storey terrace house with only three rooms situated in a “Taman” housed about sixty (60) over people in it, but upon checking with the actual residents who were staying there, they are no such persons residing there and they do not even know who are all those sixty over persons listed in the electoral list. So these sixty over people with an address situated at a single storey terrace house with only three rooms are definitely call Phantom voters. Why? Because they are actually not genuine voters and they do not even belong to that constituency.
And whenever such allegations arise, BN and Umno are quick to deny it, because they already got their backings from the Election Commission (EC) as well. The EC in order to assist BN and Umno, often view such claims as non-existence. The EC instead twisted the facts by saying that “ghosts” are wondering souls of dead persons and there is no such thing of “ghosts” being able to vote. They are all in fact trying to cover-up facts and confuse the people on the definition of phantom voter.
Now let us shift our attention to Umno. During their party’s divisional and branch elections held last year, they are a lot of allegations by their own local party leaders and members that phantom voters exist in their divisional and branch levels too. And the Umno top leaders never deny the existence of phantom voter inside their party and in fact some even acknowledged that phantom voters did really exist in their party by saying that such happenings are common in their party politics.
As such, you could see the chain reaction here, if money politics exist in Umno, there are sure to have phantom voters in the party as well. And these party phantom voters are also given the same exclusive treats like what BN is giving to the electoral phantom voters when there is a general or by-elections.
No matter how much BN and Umno firmly denying the existence of phantom voters, we all know the facts and figures. We all know who is actually cheating us all these while. They are doing these just because they are the federal government and had their control over the related authorities and departments which are able to assist them in such manipulations.
That is why we must reject BN, Umno, money politics, corruptions and phantom voters at all cost.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Monday, February 2, 2009
Corruptions in UMNO, phantom voters and denials
Corruption or widely known in Umno as money politics had a very long established roots for decades. It is practically a daily business amongst all its party leaders from the presidential levels, supreme councils, state liaison committees, divisional committees, right down to the branch committees.
The money politics in Umno has been so popular today until its top leaders had a most difficult task of avoiding or denying it and finally they are saying that the leadership is taking steps to curb such practices in the party for good by calling in the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC) for swift action.
Although a few arrests has been made and expected to be charged in the court soon for their malpractice, top leaders of the party remained untouched as we all know. These top leaders are the untouchables. So, what is the use of nabbing all those small flies who are merely office boys, agents or distributors? Why didn’t MACC go after those on the top and grab all those who are actually holding the money bags?
On cases of phantom voters within Umno, it is a well known subject whenever the party elections begins, be it a branch or divisional elections, such allegations are sure to come out when the opposing faction in the party does not get what they want or does not get elected into party offices. And there goes the party disciplinary and management committees start opening files and proceedings to receive such complaints from their grassroots and dissatisfied members but so far, these two committees had proven to be very ineffective as most of its decisions were made without any proper investigations being carried out by persons deemed to be independent from one faction or another. Decisions made by these two disciplinary and management committees are usually factional sided, with the complainant not getting satisfied proceedings at the end.
Then at the end, these two committees will make public of their justifications by saying that their decisions are made purely on their sole jurisdiction with no influences from any party leaders, that means they are an independent body as what they mean.
Although there are a few actions being taken against some party leaders earlier, but such action are proven only as a mere window dressing, with no real drastic action being taken in actual fact. If both the disciplinary and management committees of the party really walk its talk, there should be a reduction of such activities by now but it is seem to be increasing more and more whenever any party elections comes by. In fact these national and local Umno leaders are not afraid of the disciplinary and management committees showing the fact the party leaders are still overall powerful.
If we want to say that these disciplinary and management committee members are independent in their entities, it is actually not quite correct in sense that these committee members are still members of the party and they have been party leaders too in the past, and if they were party leaders before, the certain thing is most of them are tainted with money politics themselves as well during their periods in the party offices and leadership. So, can we actually ask an already tainted person to judge another tainted person? The other matter is, are all these independent members really of independent in their entities. Records shows that those retired leaders or veterans who are now sitting in these disciplinary and management committees are actually of factional based during their past leadership in the party. Are they truly independent in actual fact?
No wonder money politics are growing and developing rapidly in the party and it is going to achieve its record very soon as the most corrupted political party in Southeast Asia. If these disciplinary and management committees are really independent in sense of judgment and decisions, there should be no such negative activities anymore in the party, isn’t it so? The real wonder is its is rapidly growing and developing like nobody’s business at all.
So when comes to general elections in our nation, when there are claims of money politics and phantom voters being practically in use to buy voters and to shift voters’ choice over to their side, both Umno and the Elections Commission (EC) are quick to deny its existence saying that claims by the opposition are always out to tarnish Umno’s and the federal government’s image.
So, can you imagine what is the really funny here? During general elections, when opposition parties claimed money politics, vote buying and phantom voters at the Umno and Barisan Nasional (BN) side, Umno is quick to deny that, but during the Umno party elections, when allegations of money politics, vote buying and phantom voters arise from within, the party leaders acknowledge its existence and they pledge to work on it and they are still working on it till today and they will continue to work on it for the rest of their lives.
The conclusion is, the opposition parties need not expose all these in the public because Umno itself had already exposes it themselves for decades. It is not the opposition parties who were out there to tarnish their image but it is Umno themselves who had already tarnish the image of their own. Umno is still in a denial mode and is on its way to self destruct.
The money politics in Umno has been so popular today until its top leaders had a most difficult task of avoiding or denying it and finally they are saying that the leadership is taking steps to curb such practices in the party for good by calling in the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC) for swift action.
Although a few arrests has been made and expected to be charged in the court soon for their malpractice, top leaders of the party remained untouched as we all know. These top leaders are the untouchables. So, what is the use of nabbing all those small flies who are merely office boys, agents or distributors? Why didn’t MACC go after those on the top and grab all those who are actually holding the money bags?
On cases of phantom voters within Umno, it is a well known subject whenever the party elections begins, be it a branch or divisional elections, such allegations are sure to come out when the opposing faction in the party does not get what they want or does not get elected into party offices. And there goes the party disciplinary and management committees start opening files and proceedings to receive such complaints from their grassroots and dissatisfied members but so far, these two committees had proven to be very ineffective as most of its decisions were made without any proper investigations being carried out by persons deemed to be independent from one faction or another. Decisions made by these two disciplinary and management committees are usually factional sided, with the complainant not getting satisfied proceedings at the end.
Then at the end, these two committees will make public of their justifications by saying that their decisions are made purely on their sole jurisdiction with no influences from any party leaders, that means they are an independent body as what they mean.
Although there are a few actions being taken against some party leaders earlier, but such action are proven only as a mere window dressing, with no real drastic action being taken in actual fact. If both the disciplinary and management committees of the party really walk its talk, there should be a reduction of such activities by now but it is seem to be increasing more and more whenever any party elections comes by. In fact these national and local Umno leaders are not afraid of the disciplinary and management committees showing the fact the party leaders are still overall powerful.
If we want to say that these disciplinary and management committee members are independent in their entities, it is actually not quite correct in sense that these committee members are still members of the party and they have been party leaders too in the past, and if they were party leaders before, the certain thing is most of them are tainted with money politics themselves as well during their periods in the party offices and leadership. So, can we actually ask an already tainted person to judge another tainted person? The other matter is, are all these independent members really of independent in their entities. Records shows that those retired leaders or veterans who are now sitting in these disciplinary and management committees are actually of factional based during their past leadership in the party. Are they truly independent in actual fact?
No wonder money politics are growing and developing rapidly in the party and it is going to achieve its record very soon as the most corrupted political party in Southeast Asia. If these disciplinary and management committees are really independent in sense of judgment and decisions, there should be no such negative activities anymore in the party, isn’t it so? The real wonder is its is rapidly growing and developing like nobody’s business at all.
So when comes to general elections in our nation, when there are claims of money politics and phantom voters being practically in use to buy voters and to shift voters’ choice over to their side, both Umno and the Elections Commission (EC) are quick to deny its existence saying that claims by the opposition are always out to tarnish Umno’s and the federal government’s image.
So, can you imagine what is the really funny here? During general elections, when opposition parties claimed money politics, vote buying and phantom voters at the Umno and Barisan Nasional (BN) side, Umno is quick to deny that, but during the Umno party elections, when allegations of money politics, vote buying and phantom voters arise from within, the party leaders acknowledge its existence and they pledge to work on it and they are still working on it till today and they will continue to work on it for the rest of their lives.
The conclusion is, the opposition parties need not expose all these in the public because Umno itself had already exposes it themselves for decades. It is not the opposition parties who were out there to tarnish their image but it is Umno themselves who had already tarnish the image of their own. Umno is still in a denial mode and is on its way to self destruct.
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