A voter has claimed that he received RM20 from BN campaigners who visited his house at Kampung Baru Sri Aman in the Lingga state constituency this afternoon.

The male Malay voter, who asked not to be named, showed Malaysiakini the money stapled to a slip of paper that showed his voting details.

He claimed that four Malays - two males and two females believed to be BN campaigners - were doing house-to-house visits in the village around 4pm today.

At his house, they called on the family members to vote for BN and then handed over slip with his voter registration details, stapled with two RM10 notes, a small piece of white paper printed with the BN symbol and a cross beside it, together with an A4-sized poster of the BN symbol, printed in colour.

His voting details included his name, IC number, polling district, polling station, polling stream, polling date and time.

Although the slip had no BN symbol, the print at the bottom stated that the publisher is the BN headquarters located on Jalan Bako, Kuching, and the printer, a company named Lee Miing Press Sdn Bhd, also located in Kuching.

The A4 poster, also published by the state BN headquarters, states the printer as Heng Sing Brothers Press, which is also Kuching-based.

"I'm considering lodging a police report. Vote-buying is a very serious offence during an election," he told Malaysiakini .

Kampung Baru Sri Aman is located within the Lingga constituency, which is one of the 19 "black" seats identified by BN.

It is seeing a three-way fight among incumbent Simoi Peri (BN-PBB), Abang Ahmad Arabi Abang Bolhassan (PKR) and Abang Othman Abang Gom (SNAP).

Simoi, who had earlier announced that she would step down but was still fielded by BN, is said to be an "unpopular candidate".

Malaysiakini has not been able to get her response on the alleged vote-buying.

The opposition parties have been claiming that this state election has been marred by rampant vote-buying, but Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin yesterday vehemently denied this.