Gabungan Pilihanraya Bersih dan Adil / Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections

Press Release by Lim Kit Siang

January 2nd, 2009 | Posted in Press Release | No Comments » | Print This Post Print This Post

Media Statement by DAP Parliamentary Leader and MP for Ipoh Timor Lim Kit Siang in Petaling Jaya on Friday, 2nd January 2009:

Kuala Terengganu by-election – issue at stake is whether the changes started by the March 8 political tsunami last year  should be pressed  on or be blocked and  even reversed
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DAP National Deputy Chairman Dr. Tan Seng Giaw, who was at the Kuala Terengganu stadium last night representing DAP, was as surprised as anyone when it was announced that the PAS candidate for the forthcoming by-election is four-term Wakaf Mempelam State Assemblyman, Abdul Wahid Endut and not anyone  of the two leading contenders,  Batu Buruk assemblyman Dr. Syed Azman Nawawi and  PAS Terengganu chief Datuk Mustapha Ali.
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KT Education Ministry gives forgotten group the sack

January 2nd, 2009 | Posted in Media Coverage, Resource Centre | No Comments » | Print This Post Print This Post

By SK English Team

Even as the Umno-led Barisan Nasional pumps out election goodies and lures worth hundreds of millions of ringgit to voters in Kuala Terengganu, some 119 low-grade school workers in the coastal town - mainly gardeners and security guards - have been ruthlessly shown the door.
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For Najib, KT is a do-or-die battle

January 2nd, 2009 | Posted in Media Coverage | No Comments » | Print This Post Print This Post

Yong Kai Ping (Malaysiakini)
Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak couldn’t have made it any clearer - the upcoming Kuala Terengganu by-election is crucial for Umno. Indeed for him, Kuala Terengganu is the key to reversing Umno’s fortune.

At a meeting with top editors two weeks ago, the prime minister-in-waiting has likened Kuala Terengganu to the by-election in Parit Raja 20 years ago, which saw Umno Baru raising from the ashes after being mauled in Johor Baru months earlier.

Abdul Wahid Endut is Pakatan candidate for KT

January 1st, 2009 | Posted in Media Coverage | No Comments » | Print This Post Print This Post

Suara Keadilan Online

The 52-year old Wahid is a stalwart - almost a fixture in the Terengganu political scene - having successfully defended his state seat since 1990. His good result in the March 2008 poll may well have been the deciding factor.
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Rashid retires and may sue

December 31st, 2008 | Posted in Media Coverage, Resource Centre | No Comments » | Print This Post Print This Post

By MAZWIN NIK ANIS

PUTRAJAYA: Outgoing Election Commission chairman Tan Sri Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman is considering legal action against several Opposition members for making statements he claims have slandered and defamed him.
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Tan Sri Rashid’s EC term a unmitigated failure

December 31st, 2008 | Posted in Press Release | No Comments » | Print This Post Print This Post

Media Statement by DAP MP for Bukit Bendera Liew Chin Tong on 31 December 2008 in Penang

Tan Sri Rashid Abdul Rahman ended his term as the most controversial Chairman of Election Commission in history yesterday with a promise to sue opposition politicians who criticised him previously for various faults in the electoral system.
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8,388 or 10% of KT Voters Have No NoRumah

December 30th, 2008 | Posted in Commentary/Blog Post, Resource Centre | No Comments » | Print This Post Print This Post

10.5% of voters in Kuala Terengganu are registered without a house number (NoRumah), even after excluding postal voters. SPR’s voter address registration seems archaic, with 35% voters nationwide without house numbers, and without ZIP code. Why not automatically register voters and use MyKad address?

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KT Has 143 Voting Streams with Uneven Sizes, in 36 Voting Stations

December 29th, 2008 | Posted in Commentary/Blog Post, Resource Centre | No Comments » | Print This Post Print This Post

We list KT’s 36 voting stations (TM), 143 voting streams (Saluran), and the maximum number of voters that can appear in a vote tally. Two oldest voters pushed to the end of queue?

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KT Subdivided into 4 DUN, 38 DM, 36 TM, 336 Localities

December 28th, 2008 | Posted in Commentary/Blog Post, Resource Centre | No Comments » | Print This Post Print This Post

KT Subdivided into 4 DUN, 38 DM, 36 TM, 336 Localities

Kuala Terengganu (P036) contains 4 state seats (DUN), 38 voting districts (DM), 36 voting stations (TM), 143 voting streams (Saluran), and 336 localities. Oddly, KT contains very small and large localities (1 to 2,812 voters).

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1001 Police IC Changes = 1001 Potential Confusions

December 27th, 2008 | Posted in Commentary/Blog Post, Resource Centre | No Comments » | Print This Post Print This Post

SPR again slightly modified all police IC numbers. The same police voters actually remain registered in KT. But researchers who compare electoral rolls using IC numbers may mistake them as 1001 missing voters and - at the same time - another 1001 newly added voters. Such confusion had accounted for half the mystery and uproar about “900+ missing voters” in the Permatang Pauh by-election in August 2008.

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