--- On Mon, 5/13/13, leo nathan <leo_n...@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: leo nathan <leo_n...@yahoo.com>
Subject: Fw: FW:
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Date: Monday, May 13, 2013, 8:28 AM
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 11:19 PM
Subject: Re: FW:
It worked in Sarawak
On 13 May 2013 15:17, aliene choo <alien...@gmail.com> wrote:
Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 22:45:32 -0700
: Post-election payouts in Penang
Posted by Aliran on 12 May 2013
Following tip-offs from the public, an Aliran special
investigation team checked out a shoplot in Penang and came away astounded with
what was happening in broad daylight.
Payout time! Janji ditepatiYesterday, Aliran members received tip-offs from the
public about a payout to voters:… it is payout time for voters in the
Parliamentary constituency of Balik Pulau and the three state seats under it.
Voters there are given RM200 each by don’t know who.
You may file a report on this menace as the exercise to pay voters is ongoing.
I saw it yesterday, where long queues formed outside a shophouse in Sungai Dua,
Penang. Opposite TESCO extra, behind Magnum 4D. This outlet which (allegedly)
collects illegal 4d bets and also (acts) as an illegal gambling centre is
paying out, and the exercise is continuing today, I was told.
Another member of the public sent us a tip-off with this message: Attached
promissory note given by agents of BN Bayan Lepas. In the event of BN victory
in Bayan Lepas, RM160 will be paid to the holder (see voucher above).
This receipt shows “S38″, which presumably relates to the N38 Bayan Lepas state
seat. As it turned out, N38 was won by Noordin Ahmad of the BN, who increased
his majority from 399 votes in 2008 to 458 this time.
An Aliran special investigation
team decided to check this out. We found the shophouse at about 11.15am today
with a long line of people waiting in the corridor. At the ground floor was a
little outlet with a Celcom sign with a cloth banner hanging outside saying:
“Give me 5”.
The primary focus appeared to be the Balik Pulau parliamentary seat, which was
won by Hilmi Yahaya. He polled 22318 votes, defeating the PKR
candidate, Muhammad Bakhtiar Wan Chik, by a 1539-vote majority.This was a
‘winnable’ seat for the BN as in the 2008 general election, Yusmadi Yusoff of
PKR had clinched the seat, squeezing through with a 708-vote majority. (Yusmadi
was not selected this time around to defend the seat for PKR.)
We managed to get hold of two receipts from people who had been standing in
line. Both returned disappointed when they found out they were not eligible to
claim their money as the BN candidates had failed to win in their respective
areas.
No such luck, the BN guy didn’t win here.A mother and her daughter showed us
the voucher inscribed with S35. S35 presumably relates to N35 Batu Uban, won by
PKR’s Dr T Jayabalan. The two women were crest-fallen: “We were unable to claim
the money as the BN candidate didn’t win.”
Too bad, the BN man didn’t win.Similarly the holder of S32 was unable to claim
his “winnings”. S32 presumably relates to N32 Seri Delima, a seat won by
Sanisvara Nethaji Rayer a/l Rajaji of the DAP. No win for the BN in that seat.
Apparently, the payouts today were being made from 11.00am to 7.00pm, and this
was the third day of payments. Look at this long line of people
today:Incredibly, the organisers were daring, conducting this payout just nine
doors away from a police station in the next block. Unfortunately, the police
were out on patrol.
Payouts were also made yesterday until evening. Those who came late were told
to come again today as payments for the day had already been made.Over in Pulau
Betong, also under the Balik Pulau parliamentary seat, something similar was
happening, according to new Bayan Baru MP Sim Sze Tzin of PKR. At a shack in a
kampung next to a seafood eatery, some 200 people were queuing up in four lines
of 50 people to collect amounts ranging from RM160 to RM200, similar to what
was being paid out in the shoplot we checked.
The vouchers indicated these were for S38 (presumably N38 Bayan Lepas) and
mostly for S39 (presumably N39 Pulau Betong), said Sim.N38 Bayan
Lepas was won by Noordin Ahmad with an increased majority of 458 votes
(previously 399). Farid Saad won the N39 Pulau Betong seat with a majority of
395 votes, up from 294 in 2008.Sim said that when he and and former Penang
Speaker Abdul Halim Hussain turned up at Pulau Betong, the organisers of the
payout, believed to be gangsters, fled from the scene. Abdul Halim lost in the
N40 Teluk Bahang state seat by 801 votes. N40 is the third seat in P53 Balik
Pulau, along with N38 Bayan Lepas and N39 Pulau Betong.
Bakhtiar, who lost in Balik Pulau, made a report at the Pulau Betong Police
Station, and it was accepted, Sim added. But he was also told that the
authority with the proper jurisdiction in this matter is the MACC.
So if this sort of thing can happen in broad daylight in a developed state like
Penang, just imagine what is going on in the rural and interior areas where
there is little public scrutiny. The mind boggles.
Clean and fair elections? You tell us.
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