138. Rafizi’s team to probe 27 seats for fraud

Rafizi’s team to probe 27 seats for fraud

The team assembled by PKR director of strategy Rafizi Ramli to probe electoral frauds has identified 27 Parliament seats to scrutinise for irregularities, and which will also have a high probability of election petitions being filed in the coming days.
Of the 27, 19 are PKR-contested seats and the remaining seats contested by its two Pakatan Rakyat coalition partners DAP and PAS.
The 19 seats PKR lost marginally are Baram, Pasir Gudang,Machang, Ketereh, Bagan Serai, Kota Marudu, Beaufort,Setiawangsa, Segamat, Ledang, Balik Pulau, Kulim Bandar Baharu, Muar, Hulu Selangor, Sabak Bernam, Merbok,Pensiangan, Tebrau and Saratok.
The seats contested by DAP are Bentong and Labis, while for PAS the seats are Kuala Selangor, Sungai Besar, Titiwangsa, Pulai,Kuala Kangsar and Pendang.
BN won 133 seats in the May 5 general election, against 89 won by Pakatan.
Pakatan would have formed the federal government with a simple majority had the results in the 27 parliamentary seats gone the other way.
Rafizi said his team, called Siasat PRU13, has received 237 reports of irregularities that it has classified into four areas:

• Seats with narrow margins of victory, of less than five percent;

• Narrow margins that may not tally with the spoilt votes recorded, with the spoilt votes being more than the margin of victory (ie majority);

• The percentage of postal voters and early voters bypassing the margin of victory of the normal voters, with the postal and early voters deciding the final result; and

• Seats where instances of fraud have been alleged, on which police reports have been made.

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