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Blogger cries foul over recount loss in Malaysian polls

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Most of the attention has gone to Jeff Ooi, the prominent blogger who leveraged on his online presence to win himself a parliamentary seat in the Malaysian general elections saturday.There is another blogger who’s also been leading the good fight. He is less prominent that Jeff Ooi but blogger Chegu Bard had perhaps the tougher challenge.

He was up against the son-in-law of the Prime Minister, Khairy Jamaludin. Khairy has made a name for himself through his racist and nationalistic stance and being an outright boor. His status as son-in-law of Umno’s top honcho also meant that the party would pull out all the stops to make sure that Khairy get elected.

On election night it looked like CheguBard might have pulled it off. He actually polled 141 votes more than Khairy, who promptly asked for a recount. In the recount it turned out that Khairy actually got 5,000 votes more than Chegu Bard.

Far fetched? Hard to believe but true? Or vote rigging as Chegu Bard claims?

clipped from www.skthew.com
From a majority of 141 votes, PKR candidate for the Rembau parliament constituency Badrul Hisham Shaharin turned from a winner to the losing end when his opponent Khairy Jamaluddin won by a staggering difference of 5,000 votes!

Now, Badrul, who is famously known as Che Gu, claimed that there were irregularities in the vote counting procedure as the Election Commission (EC) did not issue the ‘Form 14′ when it was compulsory to do so.

‘Form 14′ contains the number of total voters for a particular polling station and once the vote counting has been finalized, the form will be the official indicator of the number of votes designated for each candidate, otherwise the results could not be considered as an official one but most importantly, it gave way for manipulation as the number of votes may be added in favour of a particular candidate.

Hence, he considers issuing a petition to challenge the results
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Written by unspun

March 11, 2008 at 7:19 pm

Posted in Malaysia, blogging

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