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A Long Menu of Electoral Roll Fraud in Malaysia

One major challenge Malaysia’s opposition need to overcome before winning power is the flawed electoral roll. In that sense, their victory on 9 May 2018 is a pleasant surprise. Any Malaysian citizen above the age of 21 and of sound mind is constitutionally qualified as a voter and can technically register to be one with a valid national registration identity card. Voter registration can be done through multiple avenues: post offices, the Election Commission (EC) offices, assistant registrars and government agencies appointed by the EC. Voters who are newly registered or transferred-in from other constituencies are added on a quarterly basis to so-called ‘supplementary electoral rolls’, which are later merged with the ‘principal electoral rolls’ that contain existing voters. Behind this simple process, however, lie at least eight types of irregularity in Malaysia’s electoral rolls. These have been uncovered in electoral roll forensic analyses since 2011, carried out by Engage, a non-governmental organisation: