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?


Background:

• Nation-wide, 35% of voters were registered with the SPR without a house number (NoRumah) for GE12 electoral roll gazetted on 2008 Feb 5. See NoRumah? No Rumah? More than 1/3 voters homeless?
• Sabah led the blurry pack, with 92% of voters not registering their house number.
• Terengganu state overall had 35.2% voters without house numbers.
• The relatively urbanized Kuala Terengganu (P036) in 2008 Feb 5 had 10.6% voters without NoRumah.
• Using the latest KT roll of 2008 Dec 5, we found only slight improvement to 10.5% voters without NoRumah.

• In Permatang Pauh by-election roll dated 20080731, 1,020 or 1.8% voters were without house numbers. See this report.
• Our analysis exclude postal voters. Had postal voters been included, the percentage will be even higher by more than 1%.
• Our analysis also tries to standardized variations of entries, such as “-” and other text that denotes blank, such as “tiada”,”null”,”*”, etc.

Table A provides the overview that:

• 8,388 or 10.5% of voters in KT are registered without a house number, only a “locality” such as a village or kampung address.
• Batu Buruk has the most cases in KT, with 4,611 voters without house numbers.
• All Tables A, B, C are constructed after excluding postal voters.

Table A: Count of Voters Without NoRumah By DUN
20081205 – Excluding Postal Voters

Parl/DUN	NamaDUN	Voters Without NoRumah
03613	Wakaf Mempelam	2,451
03614	Bandar	415
03615	Ladang	911
03616	Batu Buruk	4,611
036	Kuala Terengganu	8,388
	All voters	80,229
		10.5%

Questions: (also see this article):

• Is it National Register of IC Department or SPR who omitted the house numbers?
• If NRIC have specific address details, why not automatically registere voters with MyKad info?
• Why allow SPR procedure to introduce another hard-to-detect and hard-to-correct, and widespread, error?
• Is rural development so backward 51 years after national independence that most rural voters have no specific house address?
• Why do some voters in the same village have specific house numbers, when others do not?

• If election observers can prove (by photocopied ICs that are safely crossed and cancelled) that there is a large number of voters whose ICs indeed show detailed address and house numbers, but whose voter registrations do not show house numbers, then we can make a strong case to make all voter registrations automatic, based on MyKad and NRIC database.

Table B lists those voting districts (DM, Daerah Mengundi) that have 20 or more voters registered without a house number. It shows:

• Cendering Pandai (036/16/06) has 916, the highest number of voters with blank house numbers.
• There are 14 DMs, each with more than 200 voters without house numbers.

Table B: Voting Districts With the Most Voters Without NoRumah
20081205 – Excluding Postal Voters

Parl/ DUN/DM	NamaDUN	NamaDM	Voters
036/16/06	Batu Buruk	Cendering Pantai	916
036/16/10	Batu Buruk	Kampung Kolam	832
036/16/03	Batu Buruk	Gong Tok Nasek	744
036/13/02	Wakaf Mempelam	Kampung Paluh	469
036/15/06	Ladang	Bukit Bayas	449
036/16/07	Batu Buruk	Cendering	423
036/16/02	Batu Buruk	Kampung Nibung	394
036/13/11	Wakaf Mempelam	Wakaf Mempelam	375
036/13/10	Wakaf Mempelam	Sungai Rengas	358
036/16/04	Batu Buruk	Bukit Depu	331
036/16/09	Batu Buruk	Mengabang Tengah	309
036/13/08	Wakaf Mempelam	Merbau Patah	289
036/16/05	Batu Buruk	Kuala Ibai	247
036/13/06	Wakaf Mempelam	Seberang Baruh	205
036/13/07	Wakaf Mempelam	Wakaf Beruas	198
036/16/08	Batu Buruk	Taman Permint Jaya	176
036/13/01	Wakaf Mempelam	Pulau Rusa	158
036/13/09	Wakaf Mempelam	Durian Burung	156
036/15/05	Ladang	Pasir Panjang	135
036/16/01	Batu Buruk	Pantai Batu Buruk	125
036/16/11	Batu Buruk	Kenanga	114
036/13/05	Wakaf Mempelam	Losong Hj Mat Shafie	102
036/15/02	Ladang	Mengadang Akar	90
036/14/09	Bandar	Pantai Terengganu	87
036/13/04	Wakaf Mempelam	Losong Penglima Perang	73
036/15/07	Ladang	Bukit Besar	72
036/13/03	Wakaf Mempelam	Losong Datok Amar	68
036/14/08	Bandar	Paya Bunga	64
036/15/01	Ladang	Ladang	64
036/15/04	Ladang	Gong Kapas	64
036/14/05	Bandar	Pulau Kambing	62
036/14/01	Bandar	Tok Ku	54
036/14/07	Bandar	Pejabat Bandaran	44
036/14/02	Bandar	Cabang Tiga	38
036/15/03	Ladang	Batas Baru	37
036/14/06	Bandar	Kampung Cina	25
036/14/04	Bandar	Losong Masjid	21
036/14/03	Bandar	Hiliran Masjid	20
	P036 Kuala Terengganu		8,388

Table C shows that:

• A locality is meant to be a street, village lot address, police quarters, army camp, or a representation of absentee voters.
• But some localities contain hundreds of voters without house number.
• 23 localities in KT contain more than 100 voters without a specific house number.
• Most are a village (kampung) general address. But there is a hospital address, and even a street address (Jln Sultan Mahmud) with 33 voters registered without a house number.

Table C: Count of Voters Without NoRumah By Locality
Showing Only Localities with 30 or More Voters Without NoRumah
20081205 – Excluding Postal Voters

Kodlokaliti	NamaDUN	NamaDM	NamaLokaliti	Count
036/16/03	Batu Buruk	Gong Tok Nasek	Kg Gong Tok Nasek	453
036/16/02	Batu Buruk	Kampung Nibung	Kg Nibung	381
036/16/06	Batu Buruk	Cendering Pantai	Kg Pantai Pendek	364
036/16/09	Batu Buruk	Mengabang Tengah	Kg Mengabang Tengah	309
036/16/03	Batu Buruk	Gong Tok Nasek	Kg Gong Pak Maseh	291
036/16/05	Batu Buruk	Kuala Ibai	Kg Kuala Ibai	245
036/16/10	Batu Buruk	Kampung Kolam	Kg Kolam	234
036/16/07	Batu Buruk	Cendering	Kg Raja Barang	225
036/13/06	Wakaf Mempelam	Seberang Baruh	Kg. Seberang Baruh	205
036/16/10	Batu Buruk	Kampung Kolam	Kg Teluk Tok Adis	192
036/16/06	Batu Buruk	Cendering Pantai	Kg Batu 6 Cendering	187
036/16/08	Batu Buruk	Taman Permint Jaya	Kg Kubang Ikan	152
036/16/04	Batu Buruk	Bukit Depu	Kg. Masjid Hj. Kadir	146
036/16/10	Batu Buruk	Kampung Kolam	Kg Gong Kemunting	141
036/13/08	Wakaf Mempelam	Merbau Patah	Kg Kubang Parit	141
036/13/10	Wakaf Mempelam	Sungai Rengas	Kg Sungai Rengas	139
036/15/06	Ladang	Bukit Bayas	Kg Bukit Bayas	135
036/15/06	Ladang	Bukit Bayas	Kg. Gelung Bilal	124
036/16/04	Batu Buruk	Bukit Depu	Kg Bukit Depu	119
036/13/09	Wakaf Mempelam	Durian Burung	Kg. Durian Burung	117
036/15/05	Ladang	Pasir Panjang	Kg Pasir Panjang	116
036/15/06	Ladang	Bukit Bayas	Kg Sungai Derhaka	111
036/13/02	Wakaf Mempelam	Kampung Paluh	Kg Kuala Bekah	102
036/13/07	Wakaf Mempelam	Wakaf Beruas	Kg Wakaf Beruas	98
036/13/01	Wakaf Mempelam	Pulau Rusa	Kg Pulau Rusa	97
036/13/05	Wakaf Mempelam	Losong Hj Mat Shafie	Kg Losong Hj Mat Shafie	91
036/13/10	Wakaf Mempelam	Sungai Rengas	Kg Pulau Musang	90
036/13/10	Wakaf Mempelam	Sungai Rengas	Kg Kubang Tangga	88
036/13/11	Wakaf Mempelam	Wakaf Mempelam	Kg Wakaf Mempelam	84
036/13/08	Wakaf Mempelam	Merbau Patah	Kg Merbau Patah	78
036/16/10	Batu Buruk	Kampung Kolam	Kg Padang Luar	78
036/16/10	Batu Buruk	Kampung Kolam	Kg. Banggul	77
036/16/06	Batu Buruk	Cendering Pantai	Kg Simpang Empat	76
036/16/07	Batu Buruk	Cendering	Kg Raja	74
036/13/11	Wakaf Mempelam	Wakaf Mempelam	Kg. Gelugur Raja	73
036/16/01	Batu Buruk	Pantai Batu Buruk	Kompleks Hospital Besar K. Tr	73
036/13/08	Wakaf Mempelam	Merbau Patah	Kg Panji	70
036/13/11	Wakaf Mempelam	Wakaf Mempelam	Kg. Teluk Paku	70
036/13/02	Wakaf Mempelam	Kampung Paluh	Kg Bukit Kubang Jambu	65
036/16/06	Batu Buruk	Cendering Pantai	Kg Pengkalan Raja Wali	63
036/15/06	Ladang	Bukit Bayas	Kg. Seberang Baruh	60
036/13/11	Wakaf Mempelam	Wakaf Mempelam	Kg Tok Jamal	59
036/15/07	Ladang	Bukit Besar	Kg Bukit Besar	59
036/16/10	Batu Buruk	Kampung Kolam	Kg Lembah	58
036/16/06	Batu Buruk	Cendering Pantai	Kg Teluk	48
036/13/07	Wakaf Mempelam	Wakaf Beruas	Kg Melintang	45
036/13/11	Wakaf Mempelam	Wakaf Mempelam	Kg. Pak Pa	44
036/16/07	Batu Buruk	Cendering	Kg Ketapang	41
036/13/02	Wakaf Mempelam	Kampung Paluh	Kg Paluh	40
036/16/10	Batu Buruk	Kampung Kolam	Kg Hujung Jambatan	40
036/13/02	Wakaf Mempelam	Kampung Paluh	Kg Paluh Hj Daud	39
036/15/02	Ladang	Mengadang Akar	Kg Ladang Sheikh Ibrahim	37
036/16/07	Batu Buruk	Cendering	Kg Bukit Batu Putih	37
036/16/04	Batu Buruk	Bukit Depu	Kg. Gelung Gajah	37
036/13/09	Wakaf Mempelam	Durian Burung	Kg. Bukit Kubang Jambu	36
036/16/11	Batu Buruk	Kenanga	Kg. Batu Buruk	36
036/13/07	Wakaf Mempelam	Wakaf Beruas	Kg Pak Bang	35
036/13/02	Wakaf Mempelam	Kampung Paluh	Kg Paluh Sungai Kiat	34
036/16/11	Batu Buruk	Kenanga	Jln Sultan Mahmud	33
036/16/06	Batu Buruk	Cendering Pantai	Kg Pantai Teluk	30