'Normally you need a MyKad before you can register as a voter. But in Malaysia, you can put the cart before the horse.'

PR becomes citizen ... in four hours

Joker: While many foreign spouses whose applications for permanent residence (PR) and citizenship have been languishing for years, Malaysia has found a way to fast track them. All you need to do is to register as a voter first in an area held by the opposition.

Normally you need a MyKad before you can register as a voter. But in Malaysia, you can put the cart before the horse. Apparently you can just swear to the Election Commission (EC) that you will vote BN, and EC will register you as a PR, and your status will be subsequently updated as a voter.

You can then tip Pakatan Rakyat off that a PR has been registered as a voter, and they will make some noise. The National Registration Department (NRD) will then automatically upgrade your PR status into full-fledged citizenship complete with MyKad.

Not only do you not need pay any processing fees, you might even be paid money for your 'transportation' expenses.

Rayfire: I am not sure if we see a pattern forming here: illegal workers are asked to quickly get their biometric information registered to the extent that it hampers efforts to register legal workers; the EC pushes for a biometric system for the election instead of indelible ink; now we have new Malaysians popping up everywhere, especially those from Indonesia, a lot of mysterious new registered voters, especially in hot seats and opposition areas, while the Defence Ministry wants Wataniah army reserves contingents in every constituency.

Dood: I don't know whether to be impressed by the super-fast efficiency so atypical of the civil service or to be disgusted at the shenanigans.

Newdawn4pg@wordpress: Here we managed to track one 'Mismah'. How many 'Mismahs' are out there who have managed to slip through and become full-fledged citizens of Malaysia?

In the end, we get tens of thousands of Mismahs who are citizens yet do not know how to sing Negaraku.

Anak Bangsa Malaysia: It is clear that the Umno-BN regime and its EC lackeys have not only failed to learn the lessons and understand the objectives of Bersih 2.0, and they have actually accelerated the process of perpetrating electoral fraud in their desperation to cling on to power at any cost.

It seems the rakyat must rise again. Bersih 3.0.

Malaysiawatch4.blogspot: The danger is not only with the EC but with the NRD, which has the authority to create instant citizens. We should conduct a public inquiry on the operations of this department.

Furthermore, all those granted citizenships in the past two years should be probed and all documents subjected to a thorough inspection.

Getting a village headman to certify should not be good enough without maybe four witnesses from the same village who should be interviewed separately by the inquiry.

Fateh: It has always been very obvious that when they refused to use the simple and cheap indelible ink, which was used in India's election, they have the intention to play dirty, very dirty, to wrestle back Selangor.

DannyLoHH: This act of NRD and EC, if true, will further undermine their credibility. This is treason, no two ways about it. Expect them to come out the next day and explain it away as an admistration error. But it is not, such explanations cannot be accepted for treason is a very serious crime.

It is a crime committed against the whole Malaysians. In any transparent democratic country, both the NRD and EC will require to come clean on this and heads will roll.

The home minister will be expected to resign for allowing such an episode to happen under his watch, then follow by the EC head and the NRD director-general. But this is Malaysia, we practice ‘guided democracy' that is becoming more and more like tyranny.

Karma: The EC can deny all they want, but this is terrible truth. Surprisingly none of the BN people ever unearth such fallacies. This clearly shows that they knew about all the wrongs of EC and most probably created in BN's favour.

If EC is independent, the BN parties should act in cohort with Pakatan to correct them by digging all these things and proved that they were also concerned that it could planted to benefit Pakatan too. By not doing so, it goes to prove otherwise.

Anonymous_3e86: It is difficult to believe that our ministers knew nothing of this IC scam. For years, it has been common knowledge amongst the legitimate rakyat that thousands of illegal immigrants, both from the Philippines and Indonesia, have been given blue ICs to shore up BN's votes.

Of course, the BN government and their ministers will say it was a "mistake". The problem in Malaysia is that all the authorities are controlled by BN. Even with proof or evidence of wrongdoings, the authorities have not, and will not, take serious actions against anyone committing such crimes.

The only way to stop all these hanky-panky is to vote them out. It will take a huge effort from the legitimate rakyat to out-vote the illegals.

Tkc: Our NRIC number has the following hidden details: the first six digits denote one's birth date; the second two digits denote the state that one was born; and the last digit denotes whether one is male (odd number) or female (even number).

If you look at Mismah's card, the middle two digits is ‘71' thus indicating that she was born in another country. The number ‘71' cannot be a state number because Malaysia does not have so many states unless NRD invents a new set of rules.

Considering the above factors, Mismah's blue MyKad is positively a fake.

DesiKhan: My poor sister who studied in the Methodist Girls School, Ipoh in the 1960s and has applied for citizenship many times, and even pass the Bahasa Malaysia test, has yet to get her citizenship after all these years.

She can't vote and can't buy any property. She has lived in Malaya - not Malaysia - since 1946. The government is probably only thinking of votes and not the local real Malaysians.

Kgen: The joke is that the BN government wants us to trust the EC and NRD to implement a biometric system. This sort of computerised system can only be trusted if the people implementing it are honest and incorrigible. Otherwise, it is open to massive abuse.

Ganges: Is there any meaning for me to go and vote when behind me there are 1,000 Indonesians standing with fake citizenship also waiting impatiently to cast their vote in a foreign land. For all you know, they have arrived just a few months prior to the election.

Ruben: I actually get sick in the stomach when the mainstream media published reports of people who finally become citizens after 30 or 40 years, and we see and hear about so many immigrants who become citizens just like that. This is one huge issue not just in Peninsular but more so in Sabah.

If this is actually happening, and I hear this not just only from Malaysiakini but from my friends in Kedah, I appeal to Pakatan to bring this up with the kind of facts which appeared in the Malaysiakini report.

Permanent residents are becoming citizens and voters overnight, especially in opposition-held seats.

Saengch: Luckily Malaysiakini has kept a record and image of Mismah's red IC. But we won't be so lucky when the upcoming biometric system is implemented.

A few hundred thousands of PR holders and aliens can be turned into citizen - at the press of a button - allowing them to vote on polling days, then turned back into PR, or simply untraceable aliens, four hours later.

And we would not have any clue what will hit us on election night.

SusahKes I am truly at a loss for words. If you have never seen the devil in the flesh, then look no further. For in Umno, the devil takes form to make one of his best deceptive appearances.

How else could you describe the new lows that we get treated to regularly by Umno and its minions in the civil service?

Gerard Samuel Vijayan: If this is not electoral fraud then I don't know what else is. NRD and EC, please explain.

As it is, the illegals are already the majority in Sabah and the BN government now wants to give more of them a blue MyKad. We might as well become a province of Indonesia - which may not be a bad idea for the non-Malays/Muslims.

On the contrary, if you go to Indonesia today - without fail most Indonesians will tell you that they detest the Malays/Muslims from Malaysia because of their arrogance. So much for "serumpun sebangsa".

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