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Shedding the old

By HARIATI AZIZAN and G. MANIMARAN (Sunday Star)

The Election Commission is seeking to re-register voters in a move to clean up the electoral roll. But the big question remains: Will the new roll be free of the problems that dog the current one?

A WEEK before polling day, Ahmad decided to check for his name in the election register. To his surprise, he found 24 other names registered in his family home.

Kuala-Lumpur-born Mei Lee, a 30-year-old businesswoman based in Hong Kong, has never registered to vote but discovered her name in the electoral roll for Terengganu.

Necessary update?: The electoral roll currently contains the names of 10.9 million voters. Some five million Malaysians who are eligible to vote are still not registered. — Filepic

True or not, tales like these of anomalies in the electoral roll inevitably surface every election, and the recent March 8 polls was no different.

Between 2004 and March 2008, the Election Commission received 235 complaints concerning the names of voters missing from the list.