69. New Ballot Boxes hijacked in transit

New Ballot Boxes hijacked in transit

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How to win any General Elections in Malaysia if the outgoing/caretaker Government always want to win by rigging since there is never any level playing field.

 

We have seen how the cheating has been increasing and more aggressive since the dissolution of the Parliament for the GE 13 nationwide on 3^rd April, 2013 except the state seats of Sarawak.  How could the opposition counter such challenges with their limited energy in manpower and resources especially campaign funds.  I can imagine the BN/UMNO must have spent anything up to RM20billions (official and unofficial or illegal) in their effort to stay in power to do more harm .

The last day of the GE13 and that is the polling day is most important and critical in cheating to win.

 

For the opposition with limited manpower and uneven playing field, no matter how they want to check the cheating it is indeed quite impossible especially the ROS, Police and the MACC and Election Commission (then the Election Court) are under the thumb of BN/UMNO for reasons best known to them.  Then it is likely the Governors or the Sultan also pro BN/UMNO at the time the final results albeit unchecked properly had been declared at around midnight.

 

So we need the Almighty God to make a total CHANGE in Malaysia and especially in Sabah.  God helps us as you are in control.

 

The other obvious cheating is the manipulation of ballot boxes by either stashing some extra pre-marked same colour ballot papers in extra/standby ballot boxes.  Most election workers especially the opposition sides are tired on polling day at the late hours.  The ballot boxes could be switched between the polling centres when transported to the tallying centres by vehicles as anything can happen.  Then the ballot boxes from the tallying centres to the counting centres some miles away and some by helicopters, boats, vehicles.  [Ask those helicopter pilots that some ballot boxes had been discarded mid-air in the jungle even in Berjaya time]. Depending on the weather conditions, delays are unavoidable.  There would be plenty opportunities to cheat.  The cheating could be ongoing during the polling times especially in remote areas.  How reliable are those election agents who also can be ignorant of the cheating modus operandi.

One way to reduce the cheating avenue is to stop all presiding officers no access to the communication equipment like a handphone or fixed line and away from the public.

If we really want to stop rigging with relation to the ballot boxes, we should have control of the ballot boxes and the ballot paper printing right from the start.

(some people advocate that voters demand random ballot papers and that would slow down the voting process where there are many voters queuing up and that would result in many wasted available ballot papers must coincide with the number of voters in the rolls with no extra ones to spare).  EC does print a small number of different colour ballot paper for difficult voters and such votes are deemed spoilt.  Who would check those unused/unissued ballot papers issued to each polling centre?

You may ask how come extra ballot papers are printed in the same colour to allow stashing pre-marked ballot papers.  In this incidence, please forward your questions to the EC and the Government Printer who printed those ballot papers.

I have known a Government Printer who died soon after retirement.  Coincidence?

Some may say the opposition parties participating in GE13 would ensue no fixing of pre-marked ballot papers and extra-replacement ballot boxes.  This can be done in major towns but what about the semi urban and rural areas?  What about postal votes ?  What about late arrival of some ballot boxes at the counting centres?  What about the power cut in the counting centre when pre-marked ballot papers can be replaced or introduced?  There can be many ballot boxes in the counting centre and how do we check everyone of them carefully when we are already quite tired after a long day?    Even if you find some problematic boxes, would the bias officials listen to the complaint except tell you to go to Election Courts without the evidence given to you and how can anyone win in the Courts?

This time there are many candidates in many seats in Sabah and the ballot papers would be much bigger and so many more ballot boxes would be in standby at the polling centre and how the opposition be given the chance that such extra ballot boxes not to be utilized to cheat ?  So who can really do a good job if the Police and the EC officials normally civil servants to please their masters are bias?  What happen to football matches if referees are bias and you know the consequences as such games are in the open.  For General Elections a lot of processes are beyond the control of opposition candidates.  So God have mercy on them – the doers and the victims.

 

After writing so much above and including a book on GE 2004 –Victory by landslide or rigslide, cheating would go on especially in those marginal seats.

 

In 1994, the PBS candidate in Kawang was cheated by EC and NRD after inserting a few hundred of illegal as voters and the BN candidate won by less than 200 votes.

In 2008, before the counting was commenced, it was announced in the national TV channel at about 6pm that BN won in Papar parliament seat.  There was a heavy downfall throughout halfday on the polling day and yet the final figure of voters was about 75% meaning ballot boxes were manipulated.  This was reported in the newspaper.

So I wish we can find a good polling day without substantial rigging with the EC as the referees doing a good and fair job throughout the election and polling processes without loaded project IC voters.

Actually the counting on the polling should be verified by appointed auditors and the results only official declared the next day especially for close results in first countings.

Some would tell me that the election agent would do their job well at the polling centre but do you really check those figure of actual voters to the final portion as a follow up.  Even if the election agents want to raise any issue, do you think their status would carry much weight in the Election Court?

 

I want to tell you my experience in N13 Likas by election 2001 when I met the incumbent candidate at 3pm in the kampong polling centre.  We both agree that the rate of voters at 3pm was about 30% and with another 2 hours to go and the final rate was 55% - a very impressive performance in two hours when in 7 hours from 8am, it was only 30%.  I met someone I knew seated around the polling centre and asked why there are some people hanging around and his response was just laugh.  I left before 4pm as my friend who gave me a lift there wanted to go.  So it is my imagination that ‘phantom voters’ getting paid to vote just before closing at 5pm.  Who can stop that?

 

In 1985, I was the independent candidate for Api-Api and when I went to see the Returning Officer, he was in a long telephone conversation with the BN candidate, laughing at times.

 

Why I am writing this long article is because there is a report that new ballot boxes in transit by lorries were hijacked to an unknown address rather than the Election office.  One thing is known EC had ordered so many ballot boxes since GE2008 in surplus for immediate use and you can draw your own conclusion, my concerned citizens who want not only fair and free elections but TRUE elections.

So how much poorer for Malaysia especially Sabah that costly General Elections are meaningless in nation progress when massive rigging bring in  illegal Governments whose main interest is to be corrupted to re-coup the money used in cheating.  This is a clear indication that Malaysia and Sabah would be nearer to bankruptcy arising from corruption and illegal profligacy.

I have proposed a Ballot Box Brigade [BBB] to monitor Ballot Boxes and Ballot papers.

Over to my fellow citizens for prayers.

Pass this one for goodness sake.  Please also translate this into Chinese and BM. Thank you.

Joshua Y. C. Kong

Election Candidate for insight experience in 1986 and 2001.

Author of 12 books.