‘Clean up voter list’

New Sabah Times

Kota Kinabalu: Village heads or local community leaders could help Election Commission (EC) to revoke names of voters, who had since died, from electoral roll, said State EC officer (registration unit) Hasemah Mahur.

She said the names of the deceased remained in the electoral roll because the EC was not informed of their deaths.

“EC will revoke their names if there are documents like death certificates or letters from the village heads (especially in the interior areas),” she said at a Sabah Wanita Umno function last night.

Hasemah said until Sept 30 last year, there were 780,887 registered voters in Sabah.

Meanwhile, Sabah Wanita Umno’s Membership Bureau Chairman Datuk Hamisah Samat said the bureau, with the cooperation of the EC, would conduct an exercise next month to register its members as voters.

Hamisah said that all Wanita members who are eligible to vote would be registered with the EC as soon as possible.

She said the respective divisions each had a membership bureau, and its leaders would be directed to register those who had yet to become voters.

“Our members must assist those who have yet to register,” she said in a statement yesterday.

She said the campaign to register new voters would start in April and will involve all 25 divisions.

Hamisah said her bureau had met yesterday together with their Information counterparts.

Also present at the meeting were deputy Sabah Wanita chief, Datuk Amisah Yassin, its information chief, Hajah Jainab Ahmad, and heads of membership of the various divisions.

According to Hamisah, the movement had 174,000 members.