(Free Malaysia Today) - Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah has rubbished allegations that she had deliberately misled voters by sending out letters to them saying that they were struck off the voter roll when they are still voters.
“Yes, I sent out about 1,000 letters last weekend to people who were past voters in Lembah Pantai but the names are missing from the 2011 third-quarter voter roll. They may have been shifted out of the constituency. This was a notification and to also clarify with them if they have really moved out or not,” she told FMT.
Nurul, who is a PKR vice-president, said that “ignorant Umno members” have claimed that she had also sent letters to dead people in a ploy to seek more support for Bersih 3.0.
“If Umno wants to challenge me, go ahead. I’m not the one with all the answers… the Election Commission (EC) does not make all the details known,” said Nurul, who will be holding a press conference tomorrow.
On the allegation that some voters were still found on the EC website although they received the letters, she said: “It’s because their names are not in the third-quarter 2011 voter roll. This just shows how dubious the electoral roll is.”
“I stand by my claim. I have done nothing against the law. I have never hidden the fact that it was released by my office. Why do we need to verify all this [information] ourselves? Because the EC is incompetent and has failed in its duties; it can’t update [the voter roll], so we have to do the job [for EC].
“It’s really ridiculous that Umno is now making slanderous statements about me. It should stop and check its data first.
“Umno is consistently trying to tarnish my name and block my efforts to disclose the flaws in the electoral roll. Why is that so?”
Asked if she would take legal action against Umno, Nurul said she would consult her lawyers to take the necessary action.
She also said her research has revealed that 4,100 names in her constituency have been removed and many remained dubious.
Jarumemas: So far what has Nurul Izzah did for her constituency? The only thing she does is finding faults in BN. Lembah Pantai has already developed, so she has nothing to do anything.